BRAIDED SAND
What if the rock could be a lens? And if it’s not a question of if, but when?
Braided Sand engages the geologic materiality of imaging and communication technologies. There is no glass lens without anicent sand, itself the result of hundreds of millions of years of geologic activity. Filmed at a sand mine, a glass factory, and a nanotech laboratory, Braided Sand moves between observation and abstraction, juxtaposing human and geologic timescales, plunging the viewer into churning industrial environments to lay bare the weighty earthly bases of seemingly invisible and immaterial infrastructures.
Digital Video TRT 16:40
Silicon Silica
Silicon Silica activates the elemental character of glass and the shared lineage of glass and silicon. If glass was the quintessential material of 20th century imaging and communication technologies, silicon is glass’s 21st century analogue. For Silicon Silica, fragments of silicon wafers are embedded into glass orbs. From the enclosed wafer, a plane juts out – the stress of the meeting of these materials.
below, humming
audio/video loop, flameworked borosilicate glass
Stratalimn
EXT. GARDEN NIGHT
S & O SIT OUTSIDE UNDER A WAXING MOON
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what if the rock could be a lens
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and if it’s not a question of if but when ....
excerpt from Stratalimn
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Glass Rocks (size variable)
Superundare
Surround & Overflow
Superundare from the Latin to surround and overflow are kiln-formed glass works that disrupt the notion of the picture frame as a contained, two-dimensional space. The frames in this series are literally opened up, their contents exceed them, or they seem to hold nothing at all. In reducing the pictorial space to the frame itself and rendering that frame in transparent glass, these works trouble what can be framed and if it is only that which is visible.
Kiln formed glass
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