Installations > Figures of Ground

The Watcher I
Calcium carbonate trilobite fossil with calcite crystal eye-lenses in limestone matrix (all CaCO3)
2014
Horizon I & II
Calcium carbonate gesso (CaCO3) on panel, graphite flakes (C), marble slab (CaCO3), graphite plate (C), calcite crystals (CaCO3)
2014
Horizon I
Calcium carbonate gesso (CaCO3) on panel, graphite flakes (C), calcite crystal (CaCO3)
2014
Horizon II
Marble slab (CaCO3), graphite plate (C), calcite crystal (CaCO3)
2014
The Watcher II
Pyritized trilobite fossil (FeS2) in slate matrix
2014

List of Works

Pyritization I (In Praise of Limestone), 2014
Poem, texts


Pyritization II (In Praise of Limestone), 2014
Poem, pyrite (FeS2)


The Watcher I, 2014
Calcium carbonate trilobite fossil with calcite crystal eye-lenses in limestone matrix (all CaCO3)


The Watcher II, 2014
Pyritized trilobite fossil (FeS2) in slate matrix

Specimen courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History


Horizon I & II, 2014
Calcium carbonate gesso (CaCO3) on panel, graphite flakes (C), marble slab (CaCO3), graphite plate (C), calcite crystals (CaCO3)


II (Inside of a Needle Inside of an Egg Inside of a Duck Inside of a Rabbit Inside of a Chest Buried Under an Oak Tree on an Island), 2014
Carbon ink drawing (C) on paper


III (Inside of a Needle Inside of an Egg Inside of a Duck Inside of a Rabbit Inside of a Chest Buried Under an Oak Tree on an Island), 2014
Graphite print (C) on limestone slab (CaCO3), pearl (CaCO3)


Installed at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, Spring 2014

All images by Claire Britt.

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