Cover Art | Outdoor Seating Area at the Visitor's Center

The cover image for this issue of Catalyst titled, “Outdoor Seating at the Visitor's Center,” showcases the banality of everyday life, which both produces and is produced by militarized extractivism in the name of energy security. The image juxtaposes outdoor lounge furniture with an open pit mine. Dust clouds rise from a seemingly infinite stepped desert that carries anthropogenic traces. The severity of the lines of earth that are being excavated by a machine contrast with the distant horizon that suggests the impossibility of escape from the pit. For more about Joshua Kim’s, please visit https://www.joshkim.net/