Dial

Florescent Tubes, Steel, Wood, Rope, Motor | 35’ x 16’ x 7’ | 2012 | Time lapse photograph

Along Bellingham’s bay sits the 140 acre ruins of the Georgia Pacific paper mill, an enormous brick and steel carcass resulting from the last century of resource extraction and pollutive heavy industry. Slowly the structures are being torn down with booms that echo through town, as we find ourselves within a landscape of significant change. The eight foot lights are spinning at a rate of 1 : 2 : 4, evoking a large, luminous dial marking this historic cultural transition.

Large format photography by Jason Byal