MAN MADE 2002 - 2009
This series comments on the state of our man-made world. Clear-cut: Views From the Train (©2001-02) is a series of 50 photos Mary Ellen took on a train trip across the U.S. and Canada in 2001.
Mountains (©2008), is a series of found photos of trash arranged in a mountain range of human design. The piles include electronic waste, plastic and metal, mountains of cattle dung from feed lots, and nuclear waste. Living Mountain (©2008) explores the impact of waste, much of it from developed countries, on people in the third world. Found images of trash are also used in Trash Quilt (©2008), a traditional quilt made from non-traditional fabric, as if to suggest we are sleeping under all this garbage we are making.
