Live to Create|Create to Live » pollution http://www.katebrennanhall.com/blog www.katebrennanhall.com {artist|illustrator} Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:43:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Even pollution can look pretty at times http://www.katebrennanhall.com/blog/2010/02/even-pollution-can-look-pretty-at-times/ http://www.katebrennanhall.com/blog/2010/02/even-pollution-can-look-pretty-at-times/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:03:11 +0000 admin http://www.katebrennanhall.com/blog/?p=870 Continue reading →]]> CFUtowerI shot this photo because I loved the way the rising sun created the pink glow that colored the smoke/steam coming up out of these towers. Years ago I fell in love with the paintings of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), an artist who helped me come to appreciate hulking manufacturing plants—rust and all. I loved the precision of his brush line and the way he pulled beauty out of what is often though of as ugly.

I still can’t stand coal fired power plants and I’m happy that my local utility is taking measures to clean up their act and use bio-mass fuels instead of nasty mercury spewing coal.

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