HUMANS PASSING THROUGH THE GEOLOGIC
Each polaroid has been impressed by the air and light of each site. The presence of a hand within the frame documents the moment of a human passing through the geologic forces of a place and time. The digital photo frames the time from which the human, landscape, and polaroid photo will continue to undergo distinct processes of change—shaped by the forces specific to their material composition and surrounding environment.
Laurentide: The name of the last continental ice sheet (20,000-95,000 years ago).
Pinto Gneiss: 1.7 billion year old rock found in Joshua Tree National Park.
Yucca Brevifolia (Joshua Tree): a species of yucca more than 13,000 years old.
Lake Lahontan: a pluvial lake that covered much of northwestern Nevada 18,000 years ago. Walker Lake and Pyramid Lake are the only remnants and now separated by 130 miles of dry land.
Aha Kwahwat (Colorado River in Mojave): A 5 million year old river diverted into the Hoover dam and human-made Lake Mead. Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii (Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park): A plateau eroded into a basin over the span of 50 million years.
Cambrian Manhattan Formation (Manhattan Schist) Formed around 450 million years ago when shale was pushed from the ocean floor into the Earth’s molten core during a collision between North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
passing through Laurentide (provincelands)
8" x 10", c-print, 002008
passing through Lahontan I (Pyramid Lake)
10" x 8", c-print, 002008
passing through Lahontan II (Walker Lake)
10" x 8", c-print, 002008
passing through Aha Kwahwat (Lake Mead)
10" x 8" c-print, 002008
passing through Aha Kwahwat (Hoover Dam)
8" x 10" c-print, 002008
passing through pinto gneiss and yucca brevifolia (Joshua Tree)
10" x 8" c-print, 002008
passing through Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii (Monument Valley)
video still, 002007
passing through the Cambrian Manhattan Formation (Central Park)
10" x 8" c-print, 002009
passing through the Cambrian Manhattan Formation (Museum of Natural History)
10" x 8" c-print, 002009