Naoya Hatakeyama, Japanese Photographer, SFMOMA
Reminds me of Edward Burtynsky - this photographer also records the industrial landscape, men’s encroachments upon the passive earth.
The mountain once swelled with fullness
Its rhinegold safe in the gods' possession
But the dark we/us lusted for the holdings
And now the earth is aborted, carved and hacked
Most deliberately and cleverly.
Dante's rungs of Hell hath fury
for this destruction has transported his kingdom
above ground, revealed to all.
His sin, to cloak innocence and atrocity
in splendid beauty.
His sin, to cloak innocence and atrocity
in splendid beauty.
And no available redemption
Will save the wealth of grace
that once belonged to all
Is lost.
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