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.

CLIMATE BENEFIT, TINY ATLAS QUARTERLY, december 2017

1. Water and silt from the Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau Icefield, Alaska), tap water, watercolor, stone from the Taku Glacier (Juneau Icefield, Alaska), cord, metal hardware, rope; ceramic circle, metal pan

2. Water and silt from the Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau Icefield, Alaska), tap water, watercolor, stone from the Westfjords (Iceland), cord, metal hardware, rope; ceramic basin, metal pan

3. Antarctic ice core samples, tap water, watercolor, stone from Couverden Island (Alaska), cord, metal hardware, rope; glass basin, ocean water and sand from Limantour Beach (Point Reyes, CA), metal pan