A MINE AND IT’S WATERY EXTENSIONS
Installation
2022
When an iron ore mine breaches the water table, local springs run dry, heavy metals seep into wells. Water that feeds the Jamun trees, the Bison and the Rasbora, trickles into the acidic stomach of the mine, only to be pumped out again. Further down the production line, the iron ore is bathed in water and sent off on its journey down the Mandovi river. The same river that the Portuguese colonizers sailed up 450 years ago and drew the first mining leases.
The installation, an ode to the beings and the water affected by iron ore mining in Goa, was part of the project ‘In the Courtroom with Rocks’, created together with Marina Sulima.
Photographed by Monika Balu
Photographed by Monika Balu