Ghost City
Urho Ghost city, also known as Urho Wind City, presents a large-scale and majestic strange wind erosion landscape which finished its formation in the long-term wind erosion, with unique wind erosion landform and strange shapes. Looking around, people will find it’s like a castle standing vertically in the vast Gobi Desert. It has become dense, scattered but regular shapes of sandstone after the long-term effect of nature.
This set of works was shot in the summer of 2016, showing the unique and colorful Devil City in a magical realism way!
Going deep into it, you will find it extremely horrible. The city is surrounded by a great number of grotesque mounds, of which some equate four stories. The side wall of them is steep. From its section, the deposition textures are quite visible. Dry and cracked loess distributes at the foot, with dead atmosphere around. Even the night with no blowing wind makes people fear and tremble.
In the Cretaceous Period about 100 million years ago, it was a huge freshwater lake with luxuriant plants on its bank, in which many ancient animals lived, such as Urho stegosaurus, plesiosaurus, dinosaur, and dsungaripterus. What a paradise for aquatic lives! Later, two times of crustal movement turned the lake into a land desert with sandstone and argillaceous rocks, which is geologically regarded as “Gobi platform”.
Urho Ghost city, also known as Urho Wind City, presents a large-scale and majestic strange wind erosion landscape which finished its formation in the long-term wind erosion, with unique wind erosion landform and strange shapes. Looking around, people will find it’s like a castle standing vertically in the vast Gobi Desert. It has become dense, scattered but regular shapes of sandstone after the long-term effect of nature.
