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Describe and Contextualise V.2

Media – Corvette Museum

On the 2nd February 2014 a CCTV camera captured the moment when a 60 ft wide sinkhole opened up beneath the atrium exhibition space of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky (USA) swallowing a selection of priceless cars from its collection. The camera positioned perfectly above the space filmed 8 of the museums exhibits’ being tossed like toys into the expanse below. The museum situated in the town of ‘Bowling Green’ sits atop a vast deep cave network and although rare, sinkholes are a feature of the local landscape. Of the 8 cars swallowed 6 were deemed too badly damaged to be repaired and remain in the permanent collection regardless.

I came across this footage online during a period of research; this point of departure was initiated after originally researching into holiday destinations I visited as a child, namely the discovery of another sinkhole residing under Lake Buena Vista, EPCOT (Walt Disney World, Florida). ‘The World Showcase’, a corporate sponsored permanent worlds fair sits on the circumference of this sinkhole.