{"id":10205,"date":"2015-09-01T14:34:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.johnbotton.com\/?page_id=10205"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:33:22","slug":"machinescapes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/machinescapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Machinescapes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Once vital and precise, now rusting into silence\u2014Machinescapes<\/em> explores the overlooked beauty of abandoned industrial machines through the lens of a photographer with an engineer\u2019s eye.<\/p>

In this series, derelict machinery is reimagined as a kind of landscape\u2014shaped not by wind or water, but by human intention and industrial design. Each image isolates visual elements where function once ruled: worn steel surfaces, fractured components, and the fading fingerprints of makers who once brought these machines to life.<\/p>

By layering and composing these forms, Machinescapes<\/em> becomes both tribute and transformation\u2014a study in texture, symmetry, and forgotten purpose. These aren\u2019t just remnants of progress, but monuments to ingenuity slowly reclaimed by time.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Machinescapes Once vital and precise, now rusting into silence\u2014Machinescapes explores the overlooked beauty of abandoned industrial machines through the lens of a photographer with an engineer\u2019s eye. In this series, derelict machinery is reimagined as a kind of landscape\u2014shaped not by wind or water, but by human intention and industrial design. Each image isolates visual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11047,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10205\/revisions\/11047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}