“The sublime in its original form was the storm. Now we, through copper and aluminum and things of that nature(...),we are protecting ourselves putting an electronic envelope around us(...). And so the sublime is now in the inversion, so no longer is nature the fearsome force, it’s man’s expansion within the natural world (...). We are the force of nature, that is fearsome, that is beyond control”.

 

Edward Burtynsky, 2013