[A pressurized pipe carries dredge along Bethany Beach, Delaware; photography by Chris Mizes.]
On his blog space within lines, Chris Mizes writes about one of the more common ways that the landscapes of dredge intrude on everyday life: beach nourishment.
As Mizes explains, this commonplace instance of landscape prosthesis is — like many of the landscapes of dredge — quickly revealed as bizarre and otherworldly, when the initial simplicity of the operation (“they’re putting more sand on the beach!”) is peeled back to reveal conflicts between lunar and terrestial gravitational pulls; miles of potentially hazardous pressurized tubing and tourist escapes; the natural and the anthropogenic; and so on.
Read Mizes’ full post here.
