I once read Roberto Varga's words that his people burned sage "to open up a window into time so the the ancestors and the unborn children could be present." I rolled a slab for a platter too big and it buckled and formed this shape and I stopped it . . . trimmed it a bit, and let it be born. It hangs from wire wrapped around two beads. I rarely mix sediments but in this case, I chose to because of the actual mixing in the ocean floors layers. I used mud from Brazil Margin in the Souyth Atlantic, some from Norfolk Slope where the Gulf Stream turns, and the first sediment sample I ever tried, from east of Virginia, 4,500 meters of water depth. |