The Cummings Road Landfill features a reflective typological inventory of the mechanical infrastructure and mysterious subterranean activities of my community’s largest collectively-constructed entity. Though misunderstood and entirely manufactured, this landscape nevertheless possesses some of the perceptual characteristics of more authentically scenic destinations. The site’s squirting pumps and bubbling methane fields, for example, curiously resemble the geothermal features one finds in places like Yellowstone National Park.

The Cummings Road Landfill (2004, running time: 7 minutes.)