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Tracy Abbott Szatan


Recent Work
Braided Sand
Between 1 & 2
Stratalimn
Superundare
Time Pieces
Inchoative Aspects
Once (or an Echo)
Echolocation
An Endless Glass Space
Anahoros
Life Cycle 4
    Mnemoptics
    A Mirror of Simple
    Souls
  

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Tracy Abbott Szatan

BRAIDED SAND


“Braided Sand. It was a century before they got glass to let light in. Unlock it and reign. A slipper, a coffin, a difference in crystal.”

- The Glass Age
  Cole Swensen

Braided Sand explores the relationship of optical technologies to earth materials as a means to consider the natural and manmade processes of transformation that are the bases of photography and other imaging technologies. In doing so the work questions the taken-for-granted use of these materials, juxtaposes human and geologic timescales, and grapples with the poetry of these materials alongside their inherent relationships to extraction.

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