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  • To Live and Die in Virginia City, Nevada
    Between tumbleweed and sky there is a suspended presence in the northwest Nevada frontier mining town of  Virginia City and the Silver Terrace Cemetery. Here's my interpretation of the place from winter visits in 2016, 2017 and 2019. 

    Prosperity saddled up next to calamity here from 1859 to 1878, when people from all over the world came after the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver deposit. Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain here writing about grizzly mining accidents, gunfights and suicidal gamblers in saloons where blood on floors was moped up regularly. Meanwhile, all the money went to the Bank of California helping to build San Fransisco before the silver got depleted. Folks who came to try their luck left town (one way or another), leaving us with their echoes teased out in the scenery.

    Lingering on is a boardwalk of saloons, kitschy tourist haunts buoyed by the 1960s tv show Bonanza and a weathered Victorian gravesite with plain wooden headstones mixed with fancy iron fence surrounds on an uneven terrace. Views of bald spots of pulverized rock blemishing hillsides, the effects of natural resource depletion, provide a backdrop to consider the people who mined and died here, forging connections with trauma and nostalgia.

    Recently the Delta Saloon exploded from a gas leak.  Here's hoping the place gets re-built.
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  • Virginia City Window View, Virginia City, 2017.

    Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • Steeple in Snow, Virginia City, 2017, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • Red Branch Virginia City, Virginia City, 2016, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Virginia City, 2017, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • Crematorium Building And Picket Fence, 2016, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.

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  • Tomb View, Silver Terrace Cemetery, 2016

    Archival pigment print.
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  • Bucket of Blood Facade Sign, Virginia City, 2016, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • Yesterday, Virginia City, 2019.

    Archival pigment print.
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  • Virginia City Vertical Landscape, Virginia City, 2017, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • C Street Boardwalk, Virginia City, 2017, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper.
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  • Skull Reflection, Virginia City, 2019.

    Archival pigment print.
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