a large ossuary of crude oil & river water taken directly from below the thick ice of the Yenesei river are frozen together in temperatures below minus 50 degrees. This is done in a field studio deep in the forests of Siberia specifically to enable a thermo dynamic process ´enthalpy of fusion´. Vast pressures are created inside the sculpture, resulting in unrepeatable gas formations, fissures & wax secretions
framed in solid brass the patina of which will evolve over time
Photography 8 x 10 in analogue film plate signed and dated verso
Provenance:
02/2018 Vernon Press 'Animae' ISBN 978-1-62273-384-2. 06/2015 shortlisted ´Environmental photographer of the year 2015´.
