Statement

Overburden is a personal confrontation with the corporations that are ignoring health and safety standards for the turn of profit. I see the mines not only as evidence of labor on the landscape but a larger metaphor for the way the worker is treated. The rock, soil, and ecosystems that survive on top of a coalfield, known as the “overburden”, lends itself to commercial exploitation. As a workforce, too, we expend our capital to provide gains for those corporate entities, thus resulting in depleted human and environmental resources.