Time and Space

This is another work made on site at Rockellmann & Gallery in Berlin Germany for their show Abandonment and Isolation. It is inspired by the core samples and ice samples collected by scientists and used to study, amongst other things, the chemical make up of the air bubbles trapped inside of them over the millennia. I am fascinated by core samples as objects, as they hold several different ideas at once. Their cylindrical shape is a direct result of the tool used to retrieve them. It is a human, architectural, industrial shape. A shape where time and space connect. Contained within the cylinders is a trapped history of the time before humans existed, and a way to study our impact on the planet. The capacity humanity has for reach that allow us to pull them out of the earth and learn from them, is the thing that we are learning is harming us. Or, the very thing that is causing our problem, is allowing us to find solutions.