sinkholes
DESCRIPTION
SUNK, is a 3D illustration book on sudden frightening deep holes in the Earth’s surface which causes destruction. Sinkhole is like a dark mysterious hallow cave inside the Earth which swallows buildings, cars, water bodies, people and many more things without a warning. But on the other hand, these devastating holes which eats up our land, creates a whole new exotic environment for us which interested me to create a book on this disaster. The collages are done from trash materials and by carving on m-seal and thick layers of asian paints. As it is a 3D book, with holes inside, it was difficult to present in a book format here; the photos of the pages are shown below. 16 Pages of illustration book. 16’ x 11”. An artist book on Sinkhole disaster.TRANSCRIPT
In a view from millions miles away in outer space, what does a piece of land, or for that matter, a dot mean to a planet?
One day you're minding your own business and the next day the earth opens up and swallows you home home literally!
Florida has the greatest number of sinkholes whereas giant sinkholes are found in China,Oman and Brazil.
Sinkholes are formed due to dissolution of carbonate rocks or by failure to maintain underground pipes and sewage system. However they come about, their common factor is water.
Groundwater �ows like an underground river. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground.
Imagine that every ground you stand on is disintegrating beneath your feet, being devoured by a giant hole.
It's amazing how a neat hole in Guatemala city is. Can the sinkhole still get bigger? What happens next with them?
A 15 story sinkhole tore open right beneath an 80 million ton pile of toxic industrial waste. The hazardous soup contaminated 90%of Florida's drinking water and clean up e�orts ran into millions of dollars. Millions of people were put in danger due to water contamination. The 2 million cubic foot hole was nicknamed 'Journey to the center of the Earth'.
Like a giant pupil in a sea of turquoise, The Blue Hole in Cribbean sea is a perfectly circular limestone sinkhole more than 300 feet across and 412 feet deep. Formed 15,000 years agao during the glacial period when sea level were much lower,it is one of the most astounding scubadiving locations.
Bimmah sinkhole is one of the world's natural oddities. Residents turned this sinkhole into a tourist trap, in the form of a swim park.
The Sarisarima holes located in Jaila Sarisarinama park in Venezuela are a mysterious and beautiful natural wonder. 350m in diameter and depth, scientist aren't sure how these stunning holes originated. Each holes contains unique ecosystem with many distinct plan and animals species found nowhere else on earth.
