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Abstracted Panguna Plotter Drawing on Vintage Graph Paper

Abstracted Panguna Plotter Drawing on Vintage Graph Paper

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Plotter drawing on 11x16.5 inch dead stock K&E graph paper bought on eBay. Paper is in good condition but has some discoloration at bottom edge that can be hidden in a frame if preferred (it kind of gives it a little character). Drawing is shipped in a tube, unframed. 

The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville, an island of Papua New Guinea, began production in 1972. Its profits contributed to PNG's effort to gain independence from Australia in 1975, although the majority of the profits ultimately went to mining conglomerate Rio Tinto and the environmental impacts of the mine were pretty awful for Bougainville residents. In 1988, an uprising of Bougainville residents against the mining company that shut down the mine expanded into a (ultimately unsuccessful) secessionist movement that lasted ten years (there's an OK documentary about it called The Coconut Revolution). In a bitter irony, in recent years the Bougainville autonomous government has sought to reopen the mine to bring new revenue to the region.

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