Devonian
Shale: Aquifer I
Approximately
25 ft. (7.6 m) square, altered Devonian shale (probably Canadaway
Group, Machias Formation,
Caneadea Shales, western New York State),
xerox on paper diagrams for alternate systems, 2000-2001
Left: computer
rendering of alternative central cross units.
Center: installation
view, group exhibition with initial unfired coating of Caneadea
Shale slurry,
Fluency, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2001.
Right: Exhibtion
Coating/Firing Process diagram showing typical pipe section through
three exhibitions.
Devonian
Shale: Aquifer I is a model for a theoretical aquifer
system made of processed, extruded
and fired shale from the Devonian geologic era deposited
in what is now western New York state, coated for each exhibition
with unfired local sediment, then fired to cone 08-06 to
lithify the coating between each exhibition. This
work can be constructed in a variety of configurations representing
different flow patterns by using other central cross units
that influence the orientation
and placement of the appendage structures, see
study of cross units above left and wall
|
drawings
in the above center image. Structure as shown was coated
with raw Devonian
Caneadea
shale slip (the same material as the
extruded pipe are made of), for the exhibition, Fluency,
at Alfred University, 2001. Devonian Shale: Aquifer
I and a limited edition of a book describing the project
and research, with the same title, by FractalTerror Press,
is in the collection of the Schein-Joseph
International Museum of Ceramic
Art,
Alfred
University, Alfred,
NY. |
Source
outcrop of Devonian shale and geologic map
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I descriptive essay
