In a region that is increasingly marked by political, economic, and cultural shifts towards the resource extraction industry; a future where the physical presence of the resource extraction industry is seen as everyday is near. The region is a place where fields of sugarcane conceal fields of oil, where bucolic hamlets are punctuated by massive infrastructure, and where long-standing geographic features are often the result of aggressive landscape manipulations: these industries preside over a landscape that is already artificial and improvised.

This type of vernacular, low-density development is juxtaposed against a new, primary economic and cultural symbol for the region: a large, elevated pipeline.