This famous series of works, completed in 2007, reveals the hidden, the forbidden, the inaccessible, what lies beneath the surface of a national myth and everyday functionality. After painstaking negotiations, the artist captured with a large-format camera what is otherwise reserved for insiders: containers of radioactive nuclear waste, a government intelligence agency's art collection, the outdoor facility of a forensic research site studying human decomposition, and the interior of a bear's den in winter. Each of the nearly 60 images is explained with a brief accompanying description that emphasizes both the complexity of the motifs and the relationship between text and image.