"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
Friedrich Nietzsche
This piece is based on a photo of a photo on display at the Hollinger mine tour in Timmins. It very much reminds me of the hoistroom view (or what I remember it to be) when I was a kid in Noranda and taken to the mine where my Dad worked.