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      Meandering Mold
      Compost: Metaphor & Muse
      370 N. Plainfield Road: An Intimate Portrait
      Still, In Motion
    13 Tons of Love
LYN SWETT MILLER
Cultivating Joy and Making Meaning with Image, Word and Voice
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370 N. Plainfield Road: An Intimate Portrait

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Landfill Project Statement


370 N. Plainfield Road - An Intimate Portrait is a collection of intimate and reverent images of our local landfill. While this mostly unseen place is a destination of last resort for all that we throw away, it is also a living and breathing ecosystem, where people and machine sculpt a mountain out of rocks, wood chips, construction debris, toys, clothes and other detritus from our lives.


These images honor our collective narrative by inviting us to consider the beauty of each individual object and the stories it contains. Perhaps by honoring these objects and the lives they touched, we might reconsider our relationship to ‘raw materials’ and our ‘stuff,’ as well as to the earth herself...


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