Now we can hold time is a series of time-based installations, inspired by ice core science. Using water samples and other materials collected from glaciers, the sculptures melt in the gallery space and create a record on the vessel below.

Ice cores are drilled by scientists and studied as physical records for climate thousands of years ago - these objects are proxies for the stories of the earth. What happens when glacier ice is treated as a precious, or even endangered, material? What happens to those stories with ice cores melt? How do we embed our own stories into them? I'm curious about how to bring these abstract - and sometimes overwhelming - ideas about the story of the earth (past, present, and future) to a human scale, and how to empathize with these geologic forces.

Mills college, november 2017

ice (Antarctic ice core samples, water and silt from Mendenhall Glacier, tap water, watercolor), stone from Llewellen Glacier terminus, ceramic basin, metal hardware, carabiners, climbing rope, cordelette, contact mic, speaker