the persistence of industry

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Digital

Artist Notes

© 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ________________________________________________________________________________ the persistence of industry ________________________________________________________________________________ make things we must. grow things we must. in truth, we do not make or grow enough to keep the hands of willing workers thus engaged. ________________________________________________________________________________ and though we know the awful consequence of waste, of littering the earth with what we leave in heaps and stacks, we wade more deeply in the river of denial, ________________________________________________________________________________ as if, by magick, poison’s charmed away to some dark place. as if, through our great power ________________________________________________________________________________ earth will cleanse itself of our disgrace. ~ © 2011 RC deWinter ________________________________________________________________________________ A view of the the historic Belden Silk Mill, Rockville, Connecticut, that still operates as a silk-dyeing plant.