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This suite of paintings examines the varied features and highlights of an abandoned and contaminated trainyard in Eureka, California. They describe this particular site’s many surface disruptions and scarring by hydrocarbon and lead contamination, along with its apparatus of containment and clean-up. (All works are 2002, oil on panel, 5"x7")

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Car Carcass

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Monitor Well

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Groundwater Awaiting Analysis

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Soil Sampling Area

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Area 3

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Bunker C Fuel Tank

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Misintentional Incident

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Opportunistic Vistas

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Elliptical Vista

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Palimpsestic Vista 1

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Palimpsestic Vista 2

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Elliptical Vista 2

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