While traveling through Mansfield, Ohio to document housing insecurity, Lippowiths expected attention to remain fixed on immediate human need: shelter, stability, survival. Instead, she became increasingly drawn to the surrounding landscape itself, marked by extraction, abandonment, and reinvention. The turning point came at the former General Motors Mansfield-Ontario Metal Stamping Plant, a 270-acre industrial site now reduced to barren ground, lingering infrastructure, and silence.

On a fog-covered February morning, she photographed the emptied GM site. At first glance, the scene appeared serene — soft mist hovering over open land in delicate pastel tones. Yet traces of industry remained everywhere: parking lot lights, trailer paths, bridges leading nowhere. The beauty felt unsettling, disguising a deeper violence beneath the surface.

That encounter became the foundation for EXTRACTED : LIMINAL LANDSCAPES, a photographic project examining how land, labor, and entire communities are consumed, discarded, and aesthetically softened after industrial collapse. The work considers not only what is removed from the earth, but what is abandoned once its usefulness has been exhausted.