Sensing Connection to the Time Left
2018, Iceberg Gallery, Chicago
The transparent panels create a three-dimensional, walk-in fence diagram based on a series of maps of the Illinois Basin prepared by the Illinois Geological Survey and useful primarily for oil geologists looking for oil shale. The sewn strata lines have been compressed and exaggerated in both dimensions in response to the complex and intimate space of Iceberg, but retain their internal spatial relationships while the whole configuration was shifted 45 degrees counterclockwise (North is West) in order to fit the space. During the opening event, our bodies became like ghosts amid the strata of the underground, composed itself of fragmented and fossilized bodies transformed into rock in deep time. (Image credits: Jim Prinz, and Debbie Gould)