Nolan Salix paintings capture the beauty of the landscape as the light baths across the forms that were created by industry. Currently Salix work is concerned with the industrial landscapes of the west. "I do not think my works are politically shouting about the blasphemy of industry. They are meant to be everything that I can see, sense, or observe about a place with all its grim beauty. By being on site and making observation this may have political reverberations, but these works are not an overt call to political action." Salix is showing us the industrial landscape as our own collective self portrait. His pieces are often created with monumental scale, engaging the viewer into the site. Constructed with materials that reflect the nature of the site gives the work the sense of smell, the play of light and the rawness of the landscape. These raw portraits hold the contradiction of industry; the beauty of the mined material and the devastation of the landscape. Copper