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Every Outdoor Basketball Court in Manhattan

Is there meant to be any commentary on humanity's sometimes ugly effect on the landscape?

Of course there is an environmentalist bent in pieces like the collections of landfills and waste ponds, but on a much broader note, what I'm trying to illuminate is the utter humanness and strangeness of the marks we've left on the earth. Only humans would build boxes of chlorinated water in the ground to occasionally splash around in, or engineer something as complicated as a water slide for the sole purpose of entertainment. Imagery taken from the inhuman perspective of a satellite provides us enough distance to appreciate the time and species-bound specificity of our surroundings, and to see ourselves reflected in them.