Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, 2018.
Industrial-strength pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454/
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Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, 2018.
Industrial-strength pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454/
#photography
Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they *should* be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher
@mattblaze@federate.social The decommissioned smenter in Birmingham AL is a good example.
https://www.slossfurnaces.org/
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I have a section in the book I’m currently writing (about cycling across the US, and how small-scale mobility can help decarbonize the US) where I rode past the original Sinclair refinery in Wyoming and it prompted me to think about how weirdly beautiful are the aesthetics of those huge fossil-fuel-aged plants
a lot of physics and chemistry rendered into sculpture
@mattblaze@federate.social You call that a chimney? Get on my level :blobcatwinktongue: