Milan Radisics
Art of Pollution
A chapter from @water.shapes.earth project
ASHPONDS OF POLAND
To enlighten our houses, to charge phones, watch screens, cooling our food in the refrigerator, dry hair, just to name a few, we need current in the cables. One of the energy production sources are thermal power plants. But they are the world's biggest pollution sources!
After coal combustion in thermal power stations, strongly alkaline mud, slag, dust-ash, gypsum and sulphur dioxide waste delivered by pipeline is mixed with chemicals for neutralization to be deposited by stacking method. During the process toxic material leaking into the ground and evaporating from the giant ponds covering in some cases more than 2 sq mile.
Series exploring ashponds and chemical residue pools, hidden or unreachable places from a new angle. It stimulates an aesthetic response, and thus dialog about the destructive out tendencies.
The ambiguity of what is depicted, and the apparent toxicity suggested by the saturated colors pervading these colossal human-made sites, however, leave one with an overall sense of alarm. This series is effective duality of attraction and abhorrence, of water pollution and healing power of water and our own complicity, and art’s complicity in barbarism.
Producing all these sources contributes significantly to global warming and polluting our planet, called Home.
After coal combustion in thermal power station strongly alkaline mud, slag, dust-ash, gypsum and sulphur dioxide waste delivered by pipeline is mixed with chemicals for neutralization to be deposited by stacking method. During the process toxic material leaking into the ground and evaporating from the giant pond covering more 2 sq mile.
Waste material thermal power plant is pumped on to the upper surface of a massive waste impoundment in a water slurry. The impoundments are essentially very large shallow bowls, engineered to de-water the slurry through evaporation
Old open pit mine now is filled up with ash from power plant.
Ash from thermal power plant after coal combustion in form of pulp is pumped through pipelines into the huge system of ponds for gradual neutralization and dry stacking.
Artistic shapes created by flowing ash as result of coal combustion in power plants.
Artistic shapes created by flowing ash as result of coal combustion in power plants.
Ash Mosaic - Ash from thermal power plant after coal combustion in form of pulp is pumped through pipelines fixed on small sand islands, into the huge system of ponds for gradual neutralization and dry stacking.
Edge of ash slurry on contained green lake shore.
Abstract details from ashoponds
The huge pond in Polish landscape seen from the air reveal artistic shapes as result of such a huge poisoning.
My Guernica - composite picture in extra high resolution made from 250 megapixel!
Mr. Milan or Milan Radisics - The Hungarian photographer, who has also work for National Geographic, visited the Polish sites on two occasions. At location, he could remain for days until the very best light conditions revealed the true character of the given place.
The ART OF POLLUTION / Ashponds of Poland is a small part of the Water.Shapes.Earth project. It is a chapter which uses aesthetic means to present and to document hidden cost of economical grooving.
ART OF POLLUTION
ASHPONDS OF POLAND
© 2019 Milan Radisics
milan@radex.hu
