keywords: destruction • fracture • iterative practice • interdisciplinary

Optical microscope image of a glass bottle (200x) from the 17th-century Old House site, Greene Farm, Warwick, Rhode Island.

These weathering layers and surface patinas of glass are fluid, visual documentations of corrosion processes over long, and potentially measurable periods of time. In the process of gathering high magnification images of this sample in SEM (at 1.23Kx), the instrument’s high-pressure vacuum, operating at 10kv, caused the thick facture scar that runs longitudinally across these corrosion layers.

How engineers and archaeologists identify and work with iterative and replicable processes of data collection is different in each discipline. This methodological fracture may result in misunderstandings, negotiations, and different possibilities or syntheses in interdisciplinary settings.

Image and partial excerpt from "Portraits of Production: Confronting Convention, Craft, and (Re)creativity in Material Representation", Krysta Ryzewski and Elizabeth Murphy (Brown Univ.). Exhibited at TAG 2010.

exhibit wiki: http://proteus.brown.edu/materialsscience/8100

Lepenski Vir, June 2009

http://visualizing-neolithic.blogspot.com
http://theotheracropolis.com
http://kalaureiainthepresent.org

A contemporary installation accompanying the permanent exhibits of the 'Egyptian Hall',
British Museum. Assembled from found dead animals on the streets of London. Now
partially mummified.