Extracted, At Goldfields

Stormy looking painting of Lake Athabasca, looking from atop a hill. The dark of the trees and foliage is very dark, almost black, the colour of oil.

At Goldfields, Saskatchewan, the first mine near Uranium City SK. The artist Ben Davis painted this work. Davis uses asphalt (derived from bitumen) as a dark paint in the painting. The asphalt drips down the painting, ‘ruining’ it, a metaphor for the damage that mining and extractive industries do.