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Beauty in a pool of frozen dirt
The combination of a leaking radiator and freezing temperatures has cast a pattern of astonishing intricacy and improbable beauty across the linoleum floor of this vacated building in Germany. Without a readable context, one could be looking at a view over mountainous terrain from the air or the detail of a cell through an electron microscope.
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Photography
John Pawson