Mary Tremonte

Mary Tremonte
Longwall Mining Undermines Lives
$25

An extra from the edition I pulled for the Resourced Portfolio.
This print is about longwall mining, a type of coal extraction widely practiced in Appalacia, where I live, but that receives much less coverage than the more visably devastating mountaintop removal. The mineral rights to land is generally owned by massive coal companies such as Consol; homeowners only have the rights to the surface. The cracked wallpaper pattern of this print references subsidence that occurs after a vein of coal is scraped out deep beneath the surface of the ground, empty space left behind, houses and waterways left to collapse as the ground shifts.

silkscreen print
on archival French paper
19 x 25"
signed, AP