caption: This installation is on an abutment that the coal train uses to transfer coal from the mine some 70 miles away to the coal burning plant in page, arizona. When the first images of the earth were beamed back from space in the 60s, the coal burning power plant on the navajo nation near farmington, new mexico was one of the few man made things clearly identifiable by the large amount of pollution being emitted from it.
caption: i had an opportunity to share with a young navajo graphic design student the brazilian lettering style pichacao which he used on the 4th tank. this was done by ryan allison.