Tailings pond
There is an enormous tailing pond at the Highland Valley Copper mine and I want to try to create an image that gives a sense of the scale. At this point I’m just exploring the relationship of the elements: the sky, mountains, water and the tailings. I did a small watercolour sketch to start but I think I will need to work some more and decide if it would work better as a print or a painting. The sketch itself doesn’t really convey the scale or clearly define the tailings but that is the point of working through these issues before embarking on a larger piece.
