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Installation Details Mixed media: Tree Cores-wool and cotton yarn, wool roving, felt, wood, beads. Ice Cores-cotton warp, rayon weft. Sediment Cores-hand-dyed sateen fabric, plastic bags, newsprint, contact paper
Size variable, as small as 48"W x 42"H x 8"D and as large as 18 sq. feet
Many field sciences, such as glaciology, geology and forestry, use coring as a data method. But of course those scientific cores only show the past. Our handcrafted-imaginary fabric cores add possible futures to glacial ice, earthen sediments and trees. Ice receives more soot, red algae and pollen as it thins and shrinks. Sediments receive more human detritus—from plastics to newsprint and more. Trees may burn, be besieged by various pathogens and insects, or be logged for lumber. Originally created for Olympic National Park's Terminus Project, the installation has been shown at the Klondike National Historical Museum and Postmark Center for the Arts as well. Suze Woolf knit and felted the simulated tree cores, Arisa Brown dyed and quilted the sediment cores and Janet Stone wove the ice cores. |
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