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April 24, 2009
In the middle of the wilderness of Queen Charlotte Track stands the rusty symbol of the industrial /car civilization. Though the Track ran through private property at this point near Resolution Bay, that part of the Track was only accessible by boat. How come the van was there? There are no roads. Access is by boat? What use was a van in this neck of the woods? What value was it?
Gary Sauer-Thompson, rusty car, Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, 2009
What we see here is nature slowly reclaiming the rusting industrial machine. It reminded me of what was happening in South Australia as the dairy farmers leave the land because of lack of water in the river. The land ever so slowly recovers as the plants return. The modernist domination of nature by turning the river into an irrigation system had failed.
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