Projects - Ghost Town (2014-2016)
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US | About the Artists | US QR Code
The Mystery of the Mysterious...
Concept: When I first heard about Another Language’s Ghost Town project, I was intrigued… and not sure how to contribute. I spent some time looking at the extensive list of ghost towns in Utah. Some I knew of, some I had seen. And then I was struck by the name of the ghost town US. U.S. or US, as in...‘us.’ My niece had recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture, and was on a stopover in Salt Lake City before beginning a summer internship with 100 Fold Studio in Montana. We chatted about the ghost town project on the drive to Montana, and decided we would claim US, and create an overlay of 21st century buildings on top of whatever images we could find of US. Little did we know, finding any record of US would prove to be a challenge.
So, I thought, I'll head out to the visitor center at Kennecott (now Rio Tinto) and take some pictures of what's left behind in the mining process. Alas, there was a landslide in 2014, and the visitors center is closed until further notice.....
Process: We finally found some images in the National Library of Congress that could be US. Or, might not be. We’ve not been able to find any concrete evidence, other than information on a ghost town website which provided GPS coordinates. So we picked an image that could be. Once we decided on the image, Tori then drafted an overlay of what a modern city would look like in the site, using hand sketches and Photoshop to represent modern buildings, streets and cars.
The Mystery of the Mysterious...
Concept: When I first heard about Another Language’s Ghost Town project, I was intrigued… and not sure how to contribute. I spent some time looking at the extensive list of ghost towns in Utah. Some I knew of, some I had seen. And then I was struck by the name of the ghost town US. U.S. or US, as in...‘us.’ My niece had recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture, and was on a stopover in Salt Lake City before beginning a summer internship with 100 Fold Studio in Montana. We chatted about the ghost town project on the drive to Montana, and decided we would claim US, and create an overlay of 21st century buildings on top of whatever images we could find of US. Little did we know, finding any record of US would prove to be a challenge.
So, I thought, I'll head out to the visitor center at Kennecott ( now Rio Tinto) and take some pictures of what's left behind in the mining process. Alas, there was a landslide in 2014, and the visitors center is closed until further notice.....
Process: We finally found some images in the National Library of Congress that could be US. Or, might not be. We’ve not been able to find any concrete evidence, other than information on a ghost town website which provided GPS coordinates. So we picked an image that could be. Once we decided on the image, Tori then drafted an overlay of what a modern city would look like in the site, using hand sketches and Photoshop to represent modern buildings, streets and cars.
Projects | Ghost Town | Guidelines | Sites | Map | Participants | Publicity | Artist's Projects | Comments |
US | About the Artists | US QR Code
| by Jan Abramson & Tori Mansell |
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Concept: When I first heard about Another Language’s Ghost Town project, I was intrigued… and not sure how to contribute. I spent some time looking at the extensive list of ghost towns in Utah. Some I knew of, some I had seen. And then I was struck by the name of the ghost town US. U.S. or US, as in...‘us.’ My niece had recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture, and was on a stopover in Salt Lake City before beginning a summer internship with 100 Fold Studio in Montana. We chatted about the ghost town project on the drive to Montana, and decided we would claim US, and create an overlay of 21st century buildings on top of whatever images we could find of US. Little did we know, finding any record of US would prove to be a challenge.
So, I thought, I'll head out to the visitor center at Kennecott (now Rio Tinto) and take some pictures of what's left behind in the mining process. Alas, there was a landslide in 2014, and the visitors center is closed until further notice.....
Process: We finally found some images in the National Library of Congress that could be US. Or, might not be. We’ve not been able to find any concrete evidence, other than information on a ghost town website which provided GPS coordinates. So we picked an image that could be. Once we decided on the image, Tori then drafted an overlay of what a modern city would look like in the site, using hand sketches and Photoshop to represent modern buildings, streets and cars.
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| by Jan Abramson & Tori Mansell |
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Concept: When I first heard about Another Language’s Ghost Town project, I was intrigued… and not sure how to contribute. I spent some time looking at the extensive list of ghost towns in Utah. Some I knew of, some I had seen. And then I was struck by the name of the ghost town US. U.S. or US, as in...‘us.’ My niece had recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture, and was on a stopover in Salt Lake City before beginning a summer internship with 100 Fold Studio in Montana. We chatted about the ghost town project on the drive to Montana, and decided we would claim US, and create an overlay of 21st century buildings on top of whatever images we could find of US. Little did we know, finding any record of US would prove to be a challenge.
So, I thought, I'll head out to the visitor center at Kennecott ( now Rio Tinto) and take some pictures of what's left behind in the mining process. Alas, there was a landslide in 2014, and the visitors center is closed until further notice.....
Process: We finally found some images in the National Library of Congress that could be US. Or, might not be. We’ve not been able to find any concrete evidence, other than information on a ghost town website which provided GPS coordinates. So we picked an image that could be. Once we decided on the image, Tori then drafted an overlay of what a modern city would look like in the site, using hand sketches and Photoshop to represent modern buildings, streets and cars.