Down Deep & Out Far Down Deep is from the Kane Fracture Zone on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, where drillings into crust of Earth were taken, cut, and given to me as slurry.
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| 6" high x 6.5" wide Beginning from top down are: Costa Rican Accretionary Prism, band of K-T Band sediment from 65 million years ago asteroid event, and around the belly -- Earth crust slurry from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Base area is glazed with clay mined from a now-closed quarry in Albany New York. | | | 5.75" x 2" On porcelain clay, words say: 23.5° north 45° west, 30° 44.19'north 157° 49.4'west. Speckled interior brown is the latter set of coordinates (the K-T Band material) and the smooth brown on interior and exterior are from the mid-Atlantic Ridge (the first set of coordinates). Rim and foot are assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 6" x 2.5" On porcelain clay, words say: In; dinosaur-killing cloud of extraterrestrial dust from the K-T Band. Out: slurry from mid-Atlantic Ridge. Rim and foot are glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 5.5" x 1.75" On porcelain clay, words say: asteroid then, spreading ridge now ~ Earth crust & Space Dust ~ down deep, out far. The interior is the iridium anomaly from the K-T Band and the exterior is the mid-Atlantic ridge rock slurry melted. Center of seaglass and rim and foot are glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 4.25" x 3" Earth crust outside and space dust from the K-T Band inside. Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials and sea glass in the center. | | | 5" x 3" My metaphorical way of seeing is why I sometimes put red glass in the center when I use material from the mid-Atlantic Ridge. We can't see the molten core of Earth but eruptions of magma glow brightly and they do glow red at some stages (even under water!). The sheerness of the Earth crust slurry on the inside and outside of the bowl, I love. On porcelain clay, the speckled band around the red center is sediment from the K-T Band. Words say:dinosaur-killing cloud of extraterrestrial dust from the K-T Band and Earth's crust. | ||
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| 5" x 2.5" On pocelain clay, words say: In: iridilum anomaly ~ dinosaur killing cloud of extraterrestrial dust from Cretacious Tertiary Boundary ~ drillings into mid-Atlantic Ridge ~ Earth crust slurry melted ~ 23.5° North and 45° West. Center of seaglass. Rim and foot of glazes assembled from refined materials. | | | 9" x 5.5" Provenance for these materials comes with this piece; coordinates are known. The iridium layer from the Cretacious Tertiary Boundary is the speckled band at the shoulder and on the lid. Under that a wash of Earth crust slurry is applied to a chatter pattern--intentionally reminiscent of Earth's wobbling and layering and constant shifting. Under that is a thicker layer of the same earth crust slurry--it comes up from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge when maga speads the plates there. In the kiln the rock powder melts into it's fluid form hence the word "remagmized." Interior glaze and shiny area under the neck are glazes assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| | | | 5.25" x 3.25" Lower exterior is slurry from rocks cut from the mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone. The band above it has some iridium from the Cretacious Tertiary boundary. Interior is a glaze assembled from refined materials and the thumbwell is filled with blue sea-glass. | ||
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| 5.25" x 2.75" Lower exterior is slurry from rocks cut from the mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone. The band above it has some iridium from the Cretacious Tertiary boundary. Interior is a celadon glaze assembled from refined materials that was in a reducing atmosphere in the kiln; unburned fuel created smoke that made the glaze bluish green, a result of trapped carbon in the glaze. The thumbwell is filled with blue sea-glass. | | | 4.75" x 3.5" Lower exterior is slurry from rocks cut from the mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone. The band above it has some iridium from the Cretacious Tertiary boundary. Interior is a celadon glaze assembled from refined materials. The thumbwell is filled with blue sea-glass. | ||
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| K-T Boundary, about 65 million years ago contains iridium anomaly from an asteroid impact thought to have caused dinosaur extinction. Earth Crust Space Dust on Stoneware Down Deep Out Far Porcelain (with some translucency) Porcelain (some translucency) Down Deep Out Far Down deep Out Far Earth Crust Space Dust & Carbon-Trap on Porcelain Earth Crust Space Dust on Porcelain | | | 5" wide x 3.25" high Center of seaglass surrounded by sediment from core with K-T Band sediment -- coordinates recorded. Exterior is from mid-Atlantic Ridge. Bluish glaze on rim and foot were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 13.5" x 2.5" Center of seaglass framed by Earth crust slurry melted framed by sediment from K-T Band that contains asteroid dust from the supposed dinasaur-killing cloud of 65 million years ago. Click to see this information reported on the back in words. Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 4" wide x 3" high Very translucent porcelain got a big blob of soupy Earth crust slurry poured into the center. Some gassy event got frozen into the cooled bowl -- blistered and split showing tension between the refined porcelain particles and the unrefined rock slurry. Same slurry applied thinly on the exterior of the bowl fired smoothly. Band of asteroid-laden sediment is on the inside and outside -- in a narrow band underwhich words are written. | ||
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| 12" wide x 2.75" high The briefest and funnest phrase that describes the event that settled around the globe and is glaze on this piece: "Dinosaur-killing cloud of extraterrestrial dust from the K-T Band." This sample is sediment from 30°19.9’ north 157°49.4’ west 3100 to 3115 meters deep, said to contain asteroid particles. From ship LongLines cruise 44, October 1976, Leg #1. I have this material because I made a gift to honor the studies of muds, and to memorialize Charley Hollister. I was given this material for a piece I made and donated to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. There are some papers for provenance that will accompany the piece -- a map and a ship log. Iridium, a very rare element in the Earth's crust, is found in anomalously high concentrations in a thin geological soil layer called the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (often abbreviated the K-T boundary) world wide. Iridium is known to be abundant in asteroids and comet bodies, and is generally taken as evidence of a large impact about 65 million years ago, which spread Iridium-rich dust around the world. Google "iridium anomoly" for more information about this material, taken from the first core sample known to contain it. | | | 4.25" x 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: down deep out far ~ then & now ~ Earth crust Space dust. White interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 4" x 3" On translucent porcelain words say: space & Time ~ Earth crust & Space Dust ~ down deep out far. White interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 4.5" x 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: K-T Band above Mid-Atlantic Ridge rock slurry (melted). White interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 4" x 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: Earth crust & Space dust ~ down deep out far ~ then & now. White interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 3.25" x 3" On translucent porcelain, words say: K-T Band above Earth's crust ~ down deep out far ~ then & now. White interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 3.75" 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: Earth crust Space dust ~ down deep out far. Interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 3.75" x 2.75" 3.75" 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: Mid-Atlantic Ridge (arrow points down) Cretaceous Tertiary Boundary (arrow points up). Interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 3" x 2.5" On translucent porcelain, words say: KT Band over Earth's crust ~ down deep out far ~ (arrow points up and one points down). Interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 3.75" x 2.75" On translucent porcelain, words say: K-T Band & Earth crust ~ 25.5°North 45°west ~ time/space. Interior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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