On May 17, 1973, The US Government Detonated three 33-kiloton nuclear devices thousands of feet underground in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, as a test of the feasibility of nuclear fracking. This test, named “Project Rio Blanco” was part of the broader “Plowshares Program”, an attempt to find non wartime uses for nuclear weapons. The center of the three imposed shockwaves in this piece is the drill site for “Project Rio Blanco”. This piece was created for the Land Lines show at Walker Fine Art.
