Maw (Axle of Industry)

Mixed media on reclaimed wood.

23x35x1"

A primarily black and white surrealist image of a industry machine. Seen as a Goliath monster which is the combination of a typewriter and an axle.

"A crumpled paper packet moves with the wind, tumbling across a dry, dirt road.

The smell in the air; one of human
making. Refined chemical smells
intermixed. Melted tar; seared plastic, processed meat and veg under the sun, gasoline, and machine oil.

You can see people of all ages siving
through the rows and mounds. Some kneeling to examine a circuit board panel or a set of interwoven wires.

One of thousands working through the trash, digging into the mounds of broken components. An iPhone battery, a Nvidia graphics card, a motherboard. These are the paydays hidden within precious metal extraction camps.

The refuge of the "first world" has long been reclaimed in the necessity filter of the old world.

The mechanism of gross product."

- ROAM