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Michael Ashkin
Centralia, 2009
DVD, 9 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Erna Hecey Gallery
This video footage was shot in 2007 from Centralia, PA, looking west over an active coal-mining operation. Centralia is the site of an underground fire in an anthracite coal vein...
This video footage was shot in 2007 from Centralia, PA, looking west over an active coal-mining operation. Centralia is the site of an underground fire in an anthracite coal vein that has been burning since 1962 as a result of which the town has been abandoned.
