Photography- Photographer Russ Lee
A deep scar in the land now quietly holds water
It began as stone,
then suddenly it was quarried.
Gradually, it filled with rainwater,
as if its depth were holding up the sky.
The rock face is pale and rough,
marked by the scars of old cuts.
Those carved lines
are proof of the machines that once worked here.
Now only water remains,
still enough to reflect the edge of the sky
without adding anything to it.
This man-made emptiness
is being slowly reclaimed
by weather,
silence,
and time.