During the making of this series, I traveled cross-country visiting brown fields, EPA sites, strip mines, and poisoned communities. Some of these sites are well known to the public, but many of them are not famous and are generally unknown to most people. These images bear witness to the places I have visited and some of the people I have met. In these photographs I chose to hinder the horizon with man-made power lines, containment systems, smokestacks, power plants, and refineries. Visually obstructing, condensing, and flattening the horizon helps to provoke a sense of unease or quiet sickness. To experience these sites is like stepping back a hundred years to witness America as it was in the early 20th century during the immediate aftermath of the industrial revolution, a time when man and machine dominated the land with the foreseen impact of new technology. Like a map connecting points on a road, each photograph creates a sense that each town is not isolated, but encompasses a very real and shared human experience related to our own environment and the more critical eye that we may turn toward this. Echoing larger ethical ramifications of the national environmental crisis, these images empower and inform; they ask us to examine the impact of pollution we have on the familiar landscape of our own hometowns and local communities.