Scribe
Black clay, stainless steel
50x40x180cm
Suspended on a tall tripod, a black clay peaked form is impressed with small numerals that follow its contours, at first glance lending it an abstract surface texture. The continuous repetitive inscription charts the coordinates of some of the earliest ice core samples, forming a fragmentary archive of these historic cylinders.
Harking back to early clay writing tablets, the form chronicles past investigations into subterranean traces of ancient atmosphere trapped within layers of ice, in the same way that scribes pressed cuneiform characters into wet clay forming the first archives.
The dark three legged form, meanwhile, has an agency and a futuristic, cephalopodan quality, perhaps ominous, so that Scribe is poised between past record and future portent.
Black clay, stainless steel
50x40x180cm
Suspended on a tall tripod, a black clay peaked form is impressed with small numerals that follow its contours, at first glance lending it an abstract surface texture. The continuous repetitive inscription charts the coordinates of some of the earliest ice core samples, forming a fragmentary archive of these historic cylinders.
Harking back to early clay writing tablets, the form chronicles past investigations into subterranean traces of ancient atmosphere trapped within layers of ice, in the same way that scribes pressed cuneiform characters into wet clay forming the first archives.
The dark three legged form, meanwhile, has an agency and a futuristic, cephalopodan quality, perhaps ominous, so that Scribe is poised between past record and future portent.
