tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370173972024-02-14T12:54:24.886-08:00Chris Drury - microcosm and macrocosmThis is a blog of ongoing projects starting with:
1) Antarctica -Dec. 2006 - February 2007
2) Work made from the experience 2008
3) Nevada Feb. - Oct. 2008Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-44577969092665626622012-02-28T04:11:00.002-08:002012-02-28T04:18:59.847-08:00Carbon Sink - a continuing storyBack in January the University of Wyoming Art Museum was nominated for an arts award. It has not won an award in 30 years. This time Governor Mead vetoed the nomination - no reason given.<br />This is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">censorship</span> by the backdoor with the energy companies as the behind the scenes censors.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-74794355288388758732012-02-28T03:56:00.003-08:002012-02-28T04:10:58.625-08:00Landscapes Of Exploration<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTp8SIUy_if7z2jwHrBE7bFvOd4IXPfBZ9xoVi0VuRkI1jnWjNv-MWZdeK1kNYLJ-RnGYGv63T7q38787maer3s1NMvX6yMFelzwwpLbmkR5jyyaF1mDxFzACe3gKdKu97fMPuhA/s1600/_DSC5523s.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTp8SIUy_if7z2jwHrBE7bFvOd4IXPfBZ9xoVi0VuRkI1jnWjNv-MWZdeK1kNYLJ-RnGYGv63T7q38787maer3s1NMvX6yMFelzwwpLbmkR5jyyaF1mDxFzACe3gKdKu97fMPuhA/s400/_DSC5523s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714155954982837282" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdR6lblNh1t8hXOvIBq4BrDawdGZfWbFa4ZOW6ek1H_hmtkWlKo64auQItAiOhZfNpUE1jXwJvqQZNnmMoc5czrm2sQQ53gXp7e59-za90l7M2SkbLxvfKYlWqo7CoDtLV7MB-jg/s1600/_DSC5526.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdR6lblNh1t8hXOvIBq4BrDawdGZfWbFa4ZOW6ek1H_hmtkWlKo64auQItAiOhZfNpUE1jXwJvqQZNnmMoc5czrm2sQQ53gXp7e59-za90l7M2SkbLxvfKYlWqo7CoDtLV7MB-jg/s400/_DSC5526.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714155950433040866" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zRv2bk_UIwAzTxf7jdXOAGcLxu0YBoK9M8wrmbYlFuzV6YHUkGFiLvLiDbNhgddAk9VY06on1S6e8zoSqAdlSBsvze4X7BcyjPVsw5Dk7oW5cA2o5UecXas8EkxqQm6_-5AqZw/s1600/_DSC5538.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zRv2bk_UIwAzTxf7jdXOAGcLxu0YBoK9M8wrmbYlFuzV6YHUkGFiLvLiDbNhgddAk9VY06on1S6e8zoSqAdlSBsvze4X7BcyjPVsw5Dk7oW5cA2o5UecXas8EkxqQm6_-5AqZw/s400/_DSC5538.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714155940433098914" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2wivBmIZuidfQc5I1DPks80GJJ8wFJWuaUK_mvxoIHxC-ySYVb5R6u-J5GfPUDn6sD8VH12Tgn2HDSURdjOhNMJSAseAjqOP4INuZzcW-pqavGOzJofmNa7xH85DHwSasUISvg/s1600/_DSC5531.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2wivBmIZuidfQc5I1DPks80GJJ8wFJWuaUK_mvxoIHxC-ySYVb5R6u-J5GfPUDn6sD8VH12Tgn2HDSURdjOhNMJSAseAjqOP4INuZzcW-pqavGOzJofmNa7xH85DHwSasUISvg/s400/_DSC5531.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714155940475664034" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is a great show - the first time all the artists and writers who went to Antarctica have been seen together. There is also a very good catalogue.<br /><br />Peninsula Arts<br />Roland Levinski Building<br />Plymouth University<br /><br />www.peninsula-art.co.uk<br />until 31st MarchChris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-89050740478743305952012-02-28T03:46:00.003-08:002012-02-28T03:56:10.897-08:00Drawing on Ideas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk95z66K6YEKtNd63Tr636dzgpqKqDti2hIUvZDTJ6yIDwD566QgjFwgW87_QganaI4l5KIxaaBX4HweixrKIJEwoPOwwaZqz1s6tIBeZbQjTzH6ASDjwbfyA_lloBqnjdg_yzuA/s1600/_DSC5506s.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk95z66K6YEKtNd63Tr636dzgpqKqDti2hIUvZDTJ6yIDwD566QgjFwgW87_QganaI4l5KIxaaBX4HweixrKIJEwoPOwwaZqz1s6tIBeZbQjTzH6ASDjwbfyA_lloBqnjdg_yzuA/s400/_DSC5506s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714153529918461586" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KyM_-seI2xzI-yYX4K-FgVrzJXAQ_KRKkw7BGyzP0BR0xiZrzH24XQEKpTxr758NDxNvUahDqchs_x-aiYVk2Z7bI9OZmcAKcFkdSvv1yE_orn5ZaQyhNkBu4aNzlrjToe35lg/s1600/_DSC5501s.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ3mHcxBidhXww6AYGm3MHwWlt5g76_PecrySiv-ycdWqL5umLvcRsKO_q9eZ0HeUyCrbKSRdlaRWKbHpCeCe0EZppD6I4kq3soxKMBIcoY1D9xJ7Y8EMXNGkNSeQruK0KjfQ6w/s400/_DSC5474s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714153535369487218" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaof0thjbgai3zxJeijafrJ_oYHYfLE_As26IAJP0MtmPEmsRxPhLHzx2fUFYtARYCRRiCzBpo-8sVbcxGWOYrOPSfSmOEw6ITPummyh0j-VYR8pa6J8yvrToTAn1TuCv5uKoCaA/s1600/_DSC5487s.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaof0thjbgai3zxJeijafrJ_oYHYfLE_As26IAJP0MtmPEmsRxPhLHzx2fUFYtARYCRRiCzBpo-8sVbcxGWOYrOPSfSmOEw6ITPummyh0j-VYR8pa6J8yvrToTAn1TuCv5uKoCaA/s400/_DSC5487s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714153530275424306" border="0" /></a><br />Images from the showChris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-60074084049306266912012-02-03T06:47:00.004-08:002012-03-07T07:33:00.561-08:00WAVES OF TIME, an article for Art South Africa Magazine<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwxyqcv9TIgGXUWdav3KfA5JW77EDs-icTVEzwxzddEHyPWzYHaeqMGPgSubfoTW6brWvjepz5YmawFLPmSw289tL-tMnKr8-Mf81HN9Nj0pJtmdGSECy1u0XSwCiuzcMn_sY6jA/s1600/with+projection.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >In the spring of 2011 I was invited by the Nirox foundation to research material for a commission out on the Cradle of Humankind. I have been making site-specific work all over the world for the last 30 years. In that time I have worked with heart surgeons in the UK looking at the connections between systems in the body and systems on the planet; with astronomers in Nashville, Tennessee and glaciologists in Antarctica. I look at place and context, nature and culture. Underlying all of my work is a concern for how we can live sustainably on this planet. This was my first visit to Africa, long overdue and much anticipated. At Nirox I spent three weeks exploring the landscape, talking to experts and trying to get under the skin of it all. The Cradle holds the origins to the human race, but first I wanted to go back in geological time and see something of the early formation of the planet itself. So I went with Professor Roger Gibson, a geologist at Wits, to the Vredefort Dome. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >We started and finished the day at the epicentre of where a 10 kilometre long rock hit the Earth two billion years ago and which made a crater 300 km wide with a 40 km upwelling in the centre, of which only a semi-circle of low hills at the perimeter remains today. We looked at granite which had been reduced to plasticine. We saw huge seams of melted rock caused by massive friction. We saw mountains of upended horizontal rock strata, and rock which had been shattered in hatched patterns, seen nowhere else but impact craters. How do you stretch your mind to include such a massive event that happened in an unimaginably distant time? As the sun set we returned to the epicentre, to a line of boulders, which was all that remained of an eroded seam of </span><span lang="EN-US">pseudotachylite</span><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" > melted rock, and on which acid drips from an ancient forest had eroded cup-like indentations. 30,000 years ago the San people had lived and hunted here. They noticed these water-filled cups in the rock and made these boulders the site of ritual trance dances to bring rain, fresh grass and the migrating herbivores that they hunted. Images of these same animals - Eland, Wildebeest, Hippo and Rhino - they carved into the rock with extraordinary delicacy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5Qu45ELRrTESGdc4_DDLCZyBaWtJQYQJSqLW741fQIpA0m78-fpKx4DsRnzYXTZZgh-XsJ4EVhaeja_K1s8w8QXRJjM9RzM5mB7KWCd4pkOVFPhmJVsLLRo51ujasWgnw80MMA/s1600/Rock+line.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5Qu45ELRrTESGdc4_DDLCZyBaWtJQYQJSqLW741fQIpA0m78-fpKx4DsRnzYXTZZgh-XsJ4EVhaeja_K1s8w8QXRJjM9RzM5mB7KWCd4pkOVFPhmJVsLLRo51ujasWgnw80MMA/s400/Rock+line.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705257046596958082" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1F4LRsndGYz8jRIsuoNdab8qPfPjxnqIIldILF4kCiY1shFfWD4NI1loX35zq87pwTd9QRZAJbupW4BcFGCaUiQq_swFJaWY1elOoukeMAJ459bNGo1LK7CVVlKe7L4TKG0c0yA/s1600/antelope.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1F4LRsndGYz8jRIsuoNdab8qPfPjxnqIIldILF4kCiY1shFfWD4NI1loX35zq87pwTd9QRZAJbupW4BcFGCaUiQq_swFJaWY1elOoukeMAJ459bNGo1LK7CVVlKe7L4TKG0c0yA/s400/antelope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705257037642564994" border="0" /></a><br /></span></p> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >I can recognise parallels in the San trance dances to many of my activities as an artists that involve repetitive tasks, such as hand-written text works and the weaving of maps and structures. The small corbelled stone buildings I make are created in a kind of concentrated dance; days of lifting rock while assessing shape, size, line, etc. Then there are the land drawings: four years ago I worked on the Paiute Indian Reservation at Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert making a vast raked whirlwind drawing out on the playa of a dried-up ancient lake bed. Two of us made this drawing over 18 hours, mostly by moonlight as the blinding reflected heat was too hot during the day. The process was: etch the arc of the line with a stick attached to a radial string, then whack to break the surface and drag, whack and drag. Imagine doing this by the surreal light of a full moon – it is a trance dance. By 10.00 am the following morning we were done. We returned at sunset to take the photos from a high point, by which time huge black clouds were gathering and the rain started to fall as we packed up the cameras. By the following day the drawing had gone. The Nevada Museum of Art, which commissioned the work, returned a month later with a team to re-rake it, and exactly the same thing happened: it rained. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" > </span></b></p> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhddyxcrzzfB3OQ6yioblUmO-S6fk614YNHJXv9IkkKn7nOvszLuvTMDO_qbCumLTOUvJH5tD_MwdbN2JDOWeLhmo2vncpDkZeI2ZYJ0AaG9oGjNBXFK9VysB8J_DorZDqtzEDgw/s1600/Rerake+1+041.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhddyxcrzzfB3OQ6yioblUmO-S6fk614YNHJXv9IkkKn7nOvszLuvTMDO_qbCumLTOUvJH5tD_MwdbN2JDOWeLhmo2vncpDkZeI2ZYJ0AaG9oGjNBXFK9VysB8J_DorZDqtzEDgw/s400/Rerake+1+041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704927702168451794" border="0" /></a></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >This is a desert where rainfall is very scarce. I make no claims for this beyond coincidence, nor am I after an altered state, but when thinking is born of an embodied experience, then somehow the boundaries between microcosm and macrocosm, inside and outside, disappear. The Paiute, like the San lived in small nomadic bands, and during the summer months they moved from one local rainfall to another, hunting the deer and rabbits which grazed the rejuvenated grasses. The Vredefort impact crater is a place of destruction, but in the same way, the San turned it into a place of creation, of life and regeneration. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >The history of the Earth, laid down in the fossil bands visible in the Cradle of Humankind is one of continual destruction and creation; waves of life and waves of destruction. What interests me is that this is also where our human origins began. During my time at Nirox I spent a day with Professor Lee Berger, a palaeontologist at the University of Johannesburg. Three years ago Lee made a life-changing find just a mile from Nirox. By searching on Google Earth he was able to pin point several caves that had never been looked at. Close to the surface of one of these he found two complete hominid fossil skeletons: a young child and its mother. Almost everything about these skeletons is human: the pelvis, the upright stance, the hands and feet. Only the longer arms and the small craniums are closer to Australopithecus. I saw these ancient bones laid out in boxes and they are remarkable. It appears to everyone that this is pretty close to the missing link that palaeontologists have been searching for and they are two million years old. They know this because there are three strata layers in the rock where the radioactive isotopes have reversed. This means that during each of these time frames, revealed in the fossil layers, there was a polar reversal, which is a catastrophic event that happens at intervals in the Earth’s history and could well happen again. The two hominid skeletons were found amongst bones of other animals including a sabre-toothed tiger and were just above the earlier of the three pole reversals, which is how they could be dated. The speculation is that this event caused an extreme drought and all species were looking for water down the caves, where they fell in and perished.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrzDZLxskPwWGUc846rOCuo1UIGDvusAOLX0RQqeG3pZMDoj30yNJTretNvQ19uVmZUqCKxVi9fX2_5lY9AhEE_YrBHhy-gmC0Q2MXDPkBJk0inK-A38RJpGZZ9gQohxPP847lg/s1600/Lee+%252B+Skull.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrzDZLxskPwWGUc846rOCuo1UIGDvusAOLX0RQqeG3pZMDoj30yNJTretNvQ19uVmZUqCKxVi9fX2_5lY9AhEE_YrBHhy-gmC0Q2MXDPkBJk0inK-A38RJpGZZ9gQohxPP847lg/s400/Lee+%252B+Skull.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705257043521825842" border="0" /></a></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" >So a picture is emerging of waves of time, destruction and creation. In my daily walks through the Cradle I collected rocks, fossils, bones, feathers, porcupine quills and plants. I peered into caves, watched the game and jackals and listened to the lions roaring at night. I became particularly interested in the concentric patterns of various plants, tortoise shells and stromatolite fossils. </span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Stromatolites are fossilised layers of cyanobacteria algae, which formed here around two billion years ago. These primitive life forms were the first organisms to convert CO</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-line-height:150%;Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US" >2</span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US"> into oxygen, eventually giving the planet its atmosphere and creating the conditions for life on Earth and the biodiversity we know today. Cyanobacteria organisms still exist in our soils today. On the Nevada Nuclear Test Site similar cyanobacterial organisms survived the blasts of 100 atmospheric nuclear tests. This is where things come full circle, as stromatolites were virtually the only living organisms on the planet at the time of the asteroid impact two billion years ago. Many of them will have survived and been the seed of regeneration for new life after the event. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FAdfZpTa_kTEmbBQPWkwwREs7TX7VFFjy4gyGGO3eX25pTBLaA4M5ZHft-V4CepO43Ga-2itYn7NINGmmJEPccccRB3YF2JMNFFfLHo_sxsWNY1Ik_bjnZxPCPmLt92mbA0Egw/s1600/Strom2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4FAdfZpTa_kTEmbBQPWkwwREs7TX7VFFjy4gyGGO3eX25pTBLaA4M5ZHft-V4CepO43Ga-2itYn7NINGmmJEPccccRB3YF2JMNFFfLHo_sxsWNY1Ik_bjnZxPCPmLt92mbA0Egw/s400/Strom2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705311196902245378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GBfont-family:";" ></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Courier New"; 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how to create in the viewer an experience which embodies these ideas and allows for further connections to be made.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">My instincts are the following: </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">That the work should have both an inside and an outside aspect</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: 150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">That the experience within should be cave-like</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: 150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">That it should in some way reveal layers of time</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: 150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">That it should place the work in real time, within the cycles of planetary time</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">That the form and the material should echo the forms found within and around the Cradle</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">My intention is to strip away and reveal an area of dolomite rock, and to build within this area a small domed chamber in red sandstone in the shape of a stromatolite. The interior of the chamber would be plastered white and painted with bands of red ochre in patterns which echo layers of fossil time, stromatolite and tortoise shell concentric rings, and impact shatter patterns. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">The chamber will also act as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">camera obscura</i> by cutting out the light and using just a small aperture in the apex of the ceiling. Images of trees, branches, clouds and the sun would be projected over the murals onto the walls and floor. Furthermore an analemma (figure 8) would be traced out in steel pins set into the plaster. The Earth moves around the Sun in an ellipse, so at the same time every day, over the course of a year the sun traces out a figure 8 pattern. At the intersection is the equinox, at the top - the winter solstice and at the bottom - the summer solstice. By entering the chamber at midday the image of the sun would be somewhere on this analemma and the time of year would be revealed. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="Times New Roman"font-family:";" lang="EN-US">My proposal therefore is for a permanent site-specific work on the land at Nirox, which brings together, time, geology and man’s presence in this unique environment. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfbAWw1Pz-gwbS3zY5xgZc1aS9NmfK3zMSNKTa_qVT_twRd59_Q3KkpbsyagKBDn7iSmrf5F0VDOaw7Vvo7Q00pHtaJX6QLhjHPb5he4PXIDZeGTuLV3z9jJpwQ8YHGtoorcFVYA/s400/site+drawingS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704923393924967746" border="0" /><br /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-48512861748011796242012-01-30T08:36:00.000-08:002012-01-30T09:21:02.997-08:00Three Things<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIb69-9SmZySHY2ne9bWGESiUtPytsOS1ad2Z2jQEFFdCJrU-xPYLsFUjziaBnZ1AtZOkidRKVQWCEC8H5aMAUIDQ-83S_hAFPZchSFQlSwVNUbK7TuDROI0VkofOl13ev7Caqg/s1600/invite_copy.+"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIb69-9SmZySHY2ne9bWGESiUtPytsOS1ad2Z2jQEFFdCJrU-xPYLsFUjziaBnZ1AtZOkidRKVQWCEC8H5aMAUIDQ-83S_hAFPZchSFQlSwVNUbK7TuDROI0VkofOl13ev7Caqg/s400/invite_copy.+" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703465298403945122" border="0" /></a><br />First thing: Landscapes of Exploration:<br />Here is the link: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=28345#landscapes<br />I am showing 5 works:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAp_X1loJw9vktkIgosRJXCZVohOxbPRuYh6yK06FmAFdW6MvxJonGn_e8XfARbVXa32VvoyTq5S5k_Bt0IaM5nhL8grBIhNp3nlb8Tsk7KjPTVHjAskzXM5Di_fMlma2OOxkrA/s1600/AlbatrossS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAp_X1loJw9vktkIgosRJXCZVohOxbPRuYh6yK06FmAFdW6MvxJonGn_e8XfARbVXa32VvoyTq5S5k_Bt0IaM5nhL8grBIhNp3nlb8Tsk7KjPTVHjAskzXM5Di_fMlma2OOxkrA/s400/AlbatrossS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703466231519982530" border="0" /> <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Albatross 1</span></span></span><br /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTCU4ktsaS0ZrSsYfYyjK9g93vbIqesBdJxmn9jKaLjn_2GvY2oq-1g4lPadD02D_CD7Z_wpmxEjtdK614dY_Nx1V4UkVF2spstijIDstpHE0zT4ACbipkTs4pk3J_um-kWB7OFg/s1600/Iceprint1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTCU4ktsaS0ZrSsYfYyjK9g93vbIqesBdJxmn9jKaLjn_2GvY2oq-1g4lPadD02D_CD7Z_wpmxEjtdK614dY_Nx1V4UkVF2spstijIDstpHE0zT4ACbipkTs4pk3J_um-kWB7OFg/s400/Iceprint1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703466226612675682" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Iceprint 1</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP6ZeX3O9cA_N10hohvv1j9cNGhyphenhyphen8nbY329ky2p9Va2BoVjZ7-TPCtbc0vq99kWP7XZTly2Qqy3Ow-SKZeba3ZCQ-26ukH7mw47Zc4TB5ftBy8j0rXYGomD8ZfXN5URZlYye8BPA/s1600/Lake+ConcordiaM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 358px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP6ZeX3O9cA_N10hohvv1j9cNGhyphenhyphen8nbY329ky2p9Va2BoVjZ7-TPCtbc0vq99kWP7XZTly2Qqy3Ow-SKZeba3ZCQ-26ukH7mw47Zc4TB5ftBy8j0rXYGomD8ZfXN5URZlYye8BPA/s400/Lake+ConcordiaM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703475254137961842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Lake Concordia</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwFOeMs9dz-HSblD6E9csVWq3iqyJ8gH33CxagniVnYrWLDLSQ2PwTFXeqe6V8_JGMBoP-w9Y36G4dBua2TqEZcKM2FiMHi_Px9SBiozwMeSdTa6qT1Ow9nfGBaBpswzexHaj8w/s1600/double_echo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwFOeMs9dz-HSblD6E9csVWq3iqyJ8gH33CxagniVnYrWLDLSQ2PwTFXeqe6V8_JGMBoP-w9Y36G4dBua2TqEZcKM2FiMHi_Px9SBiozwMeSdTa6qT1Ow9nfGBaBpswzexHaj8w/s400/double_echo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703466237789637906" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Double Echo</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlehQetG8wAYqIACwidywY_t6EIHlbkRISSP5WyRny8omxZ-kNztHOB9HwTcFw_EY0Lwt-1MJeR-WAVb6X9WRP_cTREAjJgVHwrq-UzT7n8W5Pdfm6rR1sID5PH35PdIszWE8xA/s1600/wind_Vortex1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlehQetG8wAYqIACwidywY_t6EIHlbkRISSP5WyRny8omxZ-kNztHOB9HwTcFw_EY0Lwt-1MJeR-WAVb6X9WRP_cTREAjJgVHwrq-UzT7n8W5Pdfm6rR1sID5PH35PdIszWE8xA/s400/wind_Vortex1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703468058856409138" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Wind Vortex</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Second Thing:</span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMi5tDAhw7CX-jSSiwd0Yal1rRBXIg6nNeWPP91pkfOFmWUvbFBZAfN1C2zO8xWNb9iLOiSJOTFKFoNI5hCV6SVj6IFd0WBTZ6EiPg3Cw4iKdmijjKUHLFknEbJjYccGXlUWTlkg/s1600/Flyer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 373px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMi5tDAhw7CX-jSSiwd0Yal1rRBXIg6nNeWPP91pkfOFmWUvbFBZAfN1C2zO8xWNb9iLOiSJOTFKFoNI5hCV6SVj6IFd0WBTZ6EiPg3Cw4iKdmijjKUHLFknEbJjYccGXlUWTlkg/s400/Flyer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703469843248753202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br />Last thing:<br />I have just completed a woven map of Wyoming</span>:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpby_jl5hkW2bDaAU1V9WpVJmHeAxXmuR0KSDjdQO_gYKNy-2hxyloPIRttCMd2IDeJZkWxhCWnCVhqC989D2GfxLupmSZcJLYydIhi1ONcNm33Vc3iJrJiIYEsBytUuDWYLfPjw/s1600/On_the_ground_above_and_below_wyoming_M.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpby_jl5hkW2bDaAU1V9WpVJmHeAxXmuR0KSDjdQO_gYKNy-2hxyloPIRttCMd2IDeJZkWxhCWnCVhqC989D2GfxLupmSZcJLYydIhi1ONcNm33Vc3iJrJiIYEsBytUuDWYLfPjw/s400/On_the_ground_above_and_below_wyoming_M.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703470820084057330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJS9DPr_wZ-OnlMYVx-iz4NoY9OVU-fQucEgPOD-6ehKMosTMcuYbuL-cS20obcJDBD9iXjHM9vF48SeNKDgjIMtz92TKlGMFMknOC3SiFhSO0BsYIBDumuiNnq_xlY7NYSDJfw/s1600/detail_left.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJS9DPr_wZ-OnlMYVx-iz4NoY9OVU-fQucEgPOD-6ehKMosTMcuYbuL-cS20obcJDBD9iXjHM9vF48SeNKDgjIMtz92TKlGMFMknOC3SiFhSO0BsYIBDumuiNnq_xlY7NYSDJfw/s400/detail_left.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703471424809967330" border="0" /></a></div> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">detail</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><br />It is a topographical map woven with a Geological map of the state. The border is coal dust and Wyoming earth. The pattern is wind blowing off the Rockies. Size: 3’4” x 4’1.5”.</span></span>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-12913234241120950932012-01-13T01:39:00.000-08:002012-01-13T01:42:28.803-08:00Thixendale image<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xOKvpFpH0bB3ej5p4Yi5073s7vrr5KMw23TVgYGDjl8OQ7g17X0Zapvgh2jSsk8gqWFY-zkvUefmndnm7o4hH93explenksLULOi-5bDZ6-Gxxf1s9tkjmv6TenbfZdGZbzJYQ/s1600/Time+and+Flow.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xOKvpFpH0bB3ej5p4Yi5073s7vrr5KMw23TVgYGDjl8OQ7g17X0Zapvgh2jSsk8gqWFY-zkvUefmndnm7o4hH93explenksLULOi-5bDZ6-Gxxf1s9tkjmv6TenbfZdGZbzJYQ/s400/Time+and+Flow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697049173532625266" border="0" /></a><br />Last aired on Countryfile on 8th January. The grass still hasn't taken on some of the mounds. I think the seed was washed away in the rain. It will need to be re seeded in the spring and will open formerly in June.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-52159983481214313552011-12-23T03:19:00.000-08:002011-12-23T03:50:19.059-08:00Stromatolites rubbing<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxt5DjBR9K421-hLGQYTZH8x_HTOMFYm5PRrjPw2litsuTHGrJ3c54P4xWUUFqb4h6RtLNoVJWT31qu8J_QzcqAc70EpJx9XGPwyQHrdgbaXmjmxMrVsF5MDL3IvYwybmw8xjhzQ/s1600/Strom2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxt5DjBR9K421-hLGQYTZH8x_HTOMFYm5PRrjPw2litsuTHGrJ3c54P4xWUUFqb4h6RtLNoVJWT31qu8J_QzcqAc70EpJx9XGPwyQHrdgbaXmjmxMrVsF5MDL3IvYwybmw8xjhzQ/s400/Strom2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689286118567728018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">STROMATOLITES FOSSIL RUBBING</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">This is a rubbing of a fossil found in the Cradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">, South Africa in October 2011. Stromatolites are fossilised layers of</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">cyanobacteria algae, which formed here around 2 billion years ago. These <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">primitive life forms were the first organisms to convert CO2 into oxygen, eventually giving the planet its atmosphere and creating the conditions for life on Earth and the biodiversity we know today. Cyanobacteria organisms still exist in our soils today.</span></span><br /></div>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-17723365432853219822011-11-09T22:32:00.000-08:002011-11-09T22:36:40.941-08:00Carbon Sink, The debate continues<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Four months on the Debate about <i>Carbon Sink </i>at The University of Wyoming continues. Jeff Lockwood was the man who put the idea for the work into my head a year ago, during a brief conversation. His article in Wyofile is brilliant and the comments are revealing. Check it out online:<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/">http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/</a>)</u></span><span style="color:#1f497d;">.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here it is copied:<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11244" title="artenergy_final_c" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_final_c.jpg" alt="Art & Energy" height="250" width="630" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><em>Art is science made clear.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="right">—Wilson Mizner</p> <p align="center"><em>The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="right">—David Herbert Lawrence</p> <p>A work of art is 2½ million times more noticeable than an open pit coal mine. I base this on the physical sizes of—and political responses to—Chris Drury’s “Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around” on the University of Wyoming campus and the Black Thunder coal mine in Campbell County. The coal mine is a monumental sculpture (broadly construed) visible from 700 miles above the Earth; Drury’s art installation fits into a single 270 square-yard pixel on Google Earth. But if you really want to see human handiwork from outer space, check out the swaths of beetle-killed forests stretching across 4,800 square miles of the West. Of course, that would be a rather environmentally sly use of imagery—which is precisely what Chris Drury was up to in using beetle-killed trees to form a vortex at the center of which is a pile of coal.</p> <div id="attachment_11257" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 300px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_greensink.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11257" title="artenergy_greensink" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_greensink-300x199.jpg" alt="Carbon Sink" height="199" width="300" /></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Drury's "Carbon Sink" as installed on the University of Wyoming's campus. The 36-foot diameter piece of art, composed of scorched wood felled by pine beetles, has created a controversy: how much sway should politicians and industry representatives have over academic freedom? (Photo courtesy of Chris Drury — click to enlarge)</p> </div> <p>The point of “Carbon Sink”—or at least the message that the politicians and energy industry drew from the installation—was that burning fossil fuels pumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is warming the climate (which is an intolerable scientific discovery), which has led to higher winter temperatures, which are insufficient to kill off the outbreak (which was fostered by drought and forest management practices), which results in mountainsides covered in dead trees. And to take this one step further, a recent study in Canada revealed that the decomposition of the trees is further adding to atmospheric carbon, making the winters warmer which means—well, you get the picture. Or at least the power brokers get the picture.</p> <p>In a melodramatic response to the artwork, Marion Loomis, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association, asserted that the University of Wyoming, “put up a monument attacking me, demonizing the industry.” Loomis claimed to understand academic freedom, but intimated that liberty has a price. State representative Tom Lubnau from Gillette employed the same sort of roundabout threat: “While I would never tinker with the University of Wyoming budget—I’m a great supporter of the University of Wyoming—every now and then you have to use these opportunities to educate some of the folks at the University of Wyoming about where their paychecks come from,” (Translation: I’d sure as hell tinker if these uppity artists and impertinent eggheads continue to misbehave.)</p> <p>All of this leads one to wonder how a small work of art in a corner of a university campus could warrant such outrage. Could the hegemony of Wyoming’s energy industry really be threatened by an elegantly arranged spiral of burnt logs? This whole hullaballoo could be the old ploy of powerful industrial interests playing the victim, but that explanation is too easy. I suspect that the panic was overblown but real. And it arose from Drury’s subversive work being featured in an educational setting. The university is corrupting the state’s youth — and we all know what happened to Socrates (hint: hemlock).</p> <p align="center">* * *</p> <p>Anyone who has a soft spot for the underdog has to be doubly tickled by the fallout over “Carbon Sink.” Most obviously, the Goliath of the fossil fuel industry was thumped between the eyes. Even more delightful is that the rock was a piece of art. Not a regulation, or a lawsuit, or a technical report (e.g., an unflattering analysis of water and coal-bed methane) but an evocatively named arrangement of scorched wood. Of course, it’ll take a much larger aesthetic stone to do any lasting damage to Big Coal.</p> <div id="attachment_11250" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 300px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_blackthunder.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11250" title="artenergy_blackthunder" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_blackthunder-300x217.jpg" alt="Black Thunder coal mine" height="217" width="300" /></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Satellite photo of the Black Thunder coal mine, which spans some 50 square miles in Wyoming’s southern Powder River Basin. (click to zoom)</p> </div> <p>In addition to admitting my deep feeling of schadenfreude, I should also make two other confessions. First, I had a lovely, long visit with Chris Drury when he first came out to Wyoming. And I just might’ve given him the idea about the beetle-forest-coal-climate connection. You’ll have to ask him about the details. Second, although I came to UW as an entomologist, my position is now split between philosophy (where I work on natural resource ethics and philosophy of ecology) and the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. So in terms of full disclosure, I fancy myself something of a literary artist.</p> <p>Having worked in the sciences, humanities, and arts, I admit to some frustration when the latter two endeavors are dismissed as frivolous or largely irrelevant to modern life. This past spring, a university committee of scientists was trying to figure out if and how the arts and humanities could offer anything of value to an initiative concerning biodiversity conservation. There was something of a dog-and-pony show to explore the possibility, but there wasn’t much evidence that the scientists were convinced. And then along came “Carbon Sink.”</p> <p>I suggest that those who doubt the relevance of art to contemporary society consider that Chris Drury might have done more to catalyze a serious conversation about energy, ecology, and climate change than any technical report or research paper produced by the university. And the same goes for those who cut the arts when school funding gets tight—and for those parents who wring their hands when their kid declares a major in art (or theater, dance, philosophy, English, or history). Turns out that art matters.</p> <p>The irony, of course, is that it took a British artist to stimulate Wyoming politicians. At least we can hope that Governor Mead’s efforts to develop a state-level energy policy might include a recognition that burning fossil fuels has regional, national and global ramifications. Wyoming’s policy will affect others in profound ways. If it is “our” coal and gas, then it’s also “our” carbon dioxide—and “we” see both lucrative profits and dying forests.</p> <p align="center">* * *</p> <p>The tradeoff between wealth and beauty is a lesson worth teaching to our children, which brings me to the another political consequence of “Carbon Sink” and other works that provide social commentary (such as the seditious documentary film, Gasland). Wyoming’s Joint Minerals Business and Economic Development interim committee recently took up the matter of energy education. The idea is to develop an “Energy Literacy Education Program” for K-12 students. Two important concepts emerged from the committee’s September 12<sup>th</sup>meeting in Casper.</p> <div id="attachment_11262" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 300px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_soggymeadow.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11262" title="artenergy_soggymeadow" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_soggymeadow-300x199.jpg" alt="" height="199" width="300" /></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">A few red-needled pines, infested with bark beetles, rim a soggy meadow in the Medicine Bow National Forest. (Photo by Josh King with aerial support from LightHawk Aviation — click to enlarge)</p> </div> <p>First, the model for our venture is to be Oklahoma’s energy education program. It seems that Sen. Eli Bebout of Riverton is a real fan of the Sooners’ approach to education. Given that I teach natural resource ethics, I have a vested interest in seeing what students will have been taught when they arrive on campus. It looks like my job is not going to get any easier.</p> <p>At the <a href="http://www.oerb.com/" target="_blank">Oklahoma Energy Resources Board website</a>, one is introduced to the educational program with a video of teachers singing the praises of the Board. The state has cut teachers’ supply budgets to zero, so the educators fawn over the boxes of cool stuff that the energy industry provides for “free.” The teachers seem blissfully unaware that if their state increased severance taxes to the level of neighboring Texas, perhaps there’d be enough state revenue to provide funding for classroom supplies. Then the teachers might not have to settle for the “free” things provided by the energy industry and they could decide to purchase art supplies. We can only imagine what might happen if the kids were able to think about their world and creatively express their hopes—and concerns—without the oversight of the energy industry.</p> <p>If anyone wonders whether such an educational program in Wyoming might be just a tad tilted toward the views of industry, visit the <a href="http://web.ccsd.k12.wy.us/mines/PR/pr.html" target="_blank">Campbell County School District website</a> dedicated to the Powder River Coal Company. Sixth graders from the gifted-and-talented program put this site together, and they’re certainly a capable bunch. The text is well-written and the design is quite professional. But try clicking on “Environmental Issues.” You’ll learn that PRCC’s low-sulfur coal is better for the air, that coal mines comply with the Clean Water Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, and that, “Powder River Basin coal mines provide a kind of refuge for wildlife. Besides creating animal habitat with rocks and dead trees, the coal mines protect the animals that are living on the mine site [from hunters].” Coal mining appears to be just about the best thing that could happen to the environment. As for the effects of carbon dioxide on the climate, there’s not a peep. Maybe it’s time for a school field trip down to the UW campus to check out “Carbon Sink.”</p> <p>The other important concept to emerge from the committee meeting was framed by Lara Ryan, executive director of the Wyoming Land Trust. It seems that the core message to our children will be: “Energy and conservation are not at odds. Rather they are mutually beneficial…We can have it all.” This might be true, depending on who “we” are. If it includes today’s K-12 students, then having it all isn’t so simple. “We” (adults) seek to have it all by externalizing costs—shifting our problems onto “them” (the children and future generations).</p> <p>The core reality of the modern world of energy consumption is that we can’t have it all. My mother was an artist and wise woman. When people asked her to produce a calligraphic piece, she would tell them that there were three qualities in commissioned artwork: good, fast, and cheap. The client could pick any two of these. For example, if a bride-to-be wanted her wedding invitation to be good and fast, then it wasn’t going to be cheap.</p> <p>The same limitations hold for energy. Pick whichever two you want, but you can’t have all three. What is good (for humans and the environment) and fast (available right now) isn’t cheap (e.g., solar home systems). What is good and cheap isn’t fast (e.g., large-scale alternative energy systems), and what is cheap and fast isn’t good (e.g., burning fossil fuels). No, you can’t have it all. Even an artist knows that.</p> <p align="center">* * *</p> <p>Philosophy and art come together in the field of aesthetics. And environmental aesthetics is a rich interaction of science, philosophy, and art. The great ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote: “Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” His concept has since been framed in terms of ‘thin’ beauty, which appeals to our superficial sense of what is pretty, and ‘thick’ beauty, which arises from our understanding of what lies deeper. The Tetons are postcard pretty to anyone who sees them, but when one understands the geological forces that pushed the mountains skyward and the ecological zones that are layered on the slopes, then a thick sense of beauty emerges. It’s the difference between listening to a lovely sonata and knowing the musical theory, historical context, and composer’s anguish that lie behind the composition.</p> <div id="attachment_11264" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 252px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_flower.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11264" title="artenergy_flower" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_flower-252x300.jpg" alt="Pine Beetle" height="300" width="252" /></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Mountain pine beetles, roughly the size of a rice grains, spend most of their lives feeding under the bark of pines. At certain times of year, the beetles, en masse, take flight to find new trees to infest. (Photo by Jeff King — click to enlarge)</p> </div> <p>Many people are aesthetically offended by wind farms, although some find the form and motion of windmills to be elegant. In either case, the initial impression is just that—a hasty judgment. Understanding the marvelous complexity of engineering deepens one’s appreciation. But what makes these structures beautiful in my estimation is understanding that each day a windmill turns on the high plains of Wyoming, 4 tons of coal that are not incinerated—and each year a windmill churns means 4,300 tons of carbon dioxide do not enter the atmosphere. Now that’s a beautiful thing.</p> <p>Perhaps we should be ethically offended by coal mines and gas wells, or at least by the fact that Wyoming has extracted such wealth while spreading the costs of burning fossil fuels into the future and around the world. Maybe it’s a good thing that our views are interrupted by windmills and that we won’t derive enormous riches from this energy source. Justice entails that we bear some of the burden—whether aesthetic or economic—of energy production.</p> <p>Windmills are conspicuous. And that’s good. For too long Wyoming has externalized the costs of energy. Rather than shoving the aesthetic costs of energy into places where most of us don’t have to see the ugliness, or spreading health costs across the planet via the atmosphere (sick people aren’t very pretty), or pushing the environmental costs into the future when we don’t have to confront the unpleasant consequences of rising sea levels, windmills make us face up to our consumption and complicity. If carbon dioxide was colored a sickly chartreuse rather than being invisible, we might be much more pleased to see windmills. Of course, there’s another way of making the costs of burning fossil fuels visible—go look at the dying forests in the Rockies. Or perhaps just check out Chris Drury’s artwork tucked away in a corner of the UW campus.</p> <p>Some pretty things become beautiful when you know the deeper story, but not always. I remember as a kid seeing a pretty, swirling rainbow along the edge of a lake and later learning that this was an oil sheen. The truth isn’t always pretty; sometimes knowledge makes the world a disturbing place. Merely ugly things can become truly awful when we learn more about their appearance—as with the beetle-killed forests of Wyoming. The thin sense of ugliness gives way to a thick sense of awfulness when we understand our role in the insect outbreak.</p> <p align="center">* * *</p> <p>After the executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association claimed that his industry had been villainized and victimized by art, Mr. Loomis went on to insinuate that corporate monies to the university were put at risk by the artwork. After all, students could be led to ask hard questions (remember Socrates?). Given that political pressure worked to shut down a photography exhibit that offended the oil and gas industry (<a href="http://trib.com/news/local/nicolaysen-blocks-methane-exhibit/article_0fd7d185-f008-5b61-8652-2be98bcdc2e2.html#ixzz1cUvzcAWl" target="_blank">“The New Gold Rush: Images of Coalbed Methane,” at the Nicolaysen Museum in Casper</a>) and political extortion worked to shape university policy with regard to unwelcome political views (i.e., <a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_8b794cd0-534f-11df-9287-001cc4c03286.html%20" target="_blank">the Bill Ayers debacle</a>), Loomis’ warnings are understandable if profoundly disappointing. Of course, he hadn’t actually seen the artwork when he made his threat, but it seems that empirical evidence isn’t all that important when it comes to energy education in Wyoming.</p> <div id="attachment_11259" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 300px;"> <a class="highslide" href="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_constructionsink.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11259" title="artenergy_constructionsink" src="http://wyofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/artenergy_constructionsink-300x225.jpg" alt="Construction of Carbon Sink" height="225" width="300" /></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">A detail of ‘Carbon Sink’ as it is being installed. The sculpture is composed of timber felled by pine beetles. (Photo by Chris Drury — click to enlarge)</p> </div> <p>Loomis suggested that the university might, “put up a sculpture commending the affordable, reliable electricity that comes from coal on the other end of Prexy’s Pasture.” Perhaps Mr. Loomis has a good idea. But as much as education is touted by the energy folks, they don’t seem to be fast learners—at least when it comes to the subversive disposition of art. An artist with a keen sense of irony might be tempted to integrate the two messages. For example, s/he might install an electric light to illuminate Drury’s work. Leaving the light on continuously would convey to the viewer a sense that thanks to cheap electricity we believe that we can have it all. And perhaps it’s only fair that the energy industry would get to shed some light on “Carbon Sink,” given that the art did such a fine job shedding light on the energy industry.</p> <p align="center">* * *</p> <p align="center"><strong>Coda</strong></p> <p align="left">As for representative Lubnau’s admonishment that, “you have to use these opportunities to educate some of the folks at the University of Wyoming about where their paychecks come from,” I’m well aware that my salary is largely provided through mineral revenues—and this is exactly why I was compelled to write this piece. That, along with a real appreciation for the challenge issued by Academy and Tony Award-winning director Elia Kazan: “The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.”</p> <p><em>— If you enjoyed this essay and would like to see more quality Wyoming writing, please consider <a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/donate_now/" target="_blank"><strong>supporting WyoFile</strong></a>: a non-partisan, non-profit news organization dedicated to in-depth reporting on Wyoming’s people, places and policy.</em></p> <p><strong><a title="Republish this story" href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/2011/11/2011/10/2011/07/2011/05/republish-wyofile-content-2/">REPUBLISH THIS STORY:</a> </strong>For details on how you can republish this story or other WyoFile content for free, <strong><a title="Republish this story" href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/2011/11/2011/10/2011/07/2011/05/republish-wyofile-content-2/" target="_blank">click here</a></strong>.</p> <div class="printfriendly align"><a href="http://www.printfriendly.com/print/v2?url=http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif" alt="Print Friendly" /></a></div><p class="post_tags">Written by <a href="http://wyofile.com/author/jeffrey_lockwood/" title="Posts by Jeffrey Lockwood" rel="author">Jeffrey Lockwood</a> | Published on <abbr class="published" title="2011-11-08">November 8, 2011</abbr> | Filed under: <span><a href="http://wyofile.com/category/policy/energy/" title="View all posts in Energy" rel="category tag">Energy</a>,<a href="http://wyofile.com/category/featured/" title="View all posts in Featured" rel="category tag">Featured</a>,<a href="http://wyofile.com/category/policy/" title="View all posts in Policy" rel="category tag">Policy</a></span><br /> Keywords: <span><a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/black-thunder-coal-mine/" rel="tag">Black Thunder coal mine</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/campbell-county/" rel="tag">campbell county</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/carbon-sink/" rel="tag">carbon sink</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/chris-drury/" rel="tag">chris drury</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/coal/" rel="tag">coal</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/gasland/" rel="tag">gasland</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/jeffery-lockwood/" rel="tag">jeffery lockwood</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/university-of-wyoming/" rel="tag">University of Wyoming</a>, <a href="http://wyofile.com/tag/what-goes-around-comes-around/" rel="tag">what goes around comes around</a></span></p> <div id="comments_intro" class="comments_intro"> <p><span class="bracket">{</span> <span>4</span> comments… read them below or <a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/#respond" rel="nofollow">add one</a> <span class="bracket">}</span></p> </div> <dl id="comment_list"><dt class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-4013"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="comment_author">Mark Northam</span> <span class="comment_time"><a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/#comment-4013" title="Permalink to this comment" rel="nofollow">November 8, 2011 at 3:34 pm</a></span> </dt><dd class="comment even thread-even depth-1"> <div class="format_text" id="comment-body-4013"> <p>Carbon Sink is a piece of art. We are all entitled to decide whether we like it or not. Had the artist not explained what his “message” was, those of us who view it could easily have arrived at very different messages. My first impression – prior to the Trib spilling the beans – was to see it as an endorsement for co-firing coal and biomass as an energy source. But then, I’m not much of an art buff, and I am an energy geek. What shocked me was first that the art had to be explained in order to communicate the message, and second, how much the artist was payed for his week’s work. But, as I said I’m not much of an art buff. </p> <p>The point is, the piece is just art – and the artist probably knows as much about energy and climate change as I know about sculpture. If Mr. Drury had real scientific understanding about the interplay of “beetle-forest-coal-climate” I suspect he would have titled it “Carbon Source”, not Carbon Sink. In his defense, he was quick to explain that his personal carbon footprint was as large as anybody’s so he is not ignorant on the topic.</p> <p>Like it or not, Wyoming’s economy and way of life are absolutely dependent upon society’s continued use of fossil fuels. Mr. Drury’s message is not going to change that. Ironically, education and research – made possible by the investment of state revenue derived from the energy industry and appropriated by legislators like Mr. Lubnau – are the path to a sustainable future regardless of the energy source.</p> <p>Mr. Drury flew in, delivered his message and left a sculpture that pleases some and irritates others. Mr. Lubnau makes his home here and like his colleagues in our state goverment, is a real sculptor. His legislative work is sculpting real solutions to carbon emissions, leads the nation in that regard, and deserves our respect. He and his colleauges are the custodians of Wyoming’s future made rich by an industry that people love to hate, and their track record shows they are doing a damn good job of it. </p> <p>JDB, there is nothing in Rep. Lubnau’s comment that fosters hatred in his constituency against educators and Artists. I know him well, and that would be completely out of character. It seems you have as much intollerance for his message as you claim he does for Mr. Drury’s. Your suggestion of “shame” is completely misplaced.</p> </div> </dd><dt class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-4012"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="comment_author">Lon D. Lewis BS Cemical Engineering UW 62</span> <span class="comment_time"><a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/#comment-4012" title="Permalink to this comment" rel="nofollow">November 8, 2011 at 10:53 am</a></span> </dt><dd class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1"> <div class="format_text" id="comment-body-4012"> <p>Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! article and art work. It makes one proud of their University. Keep up and increase this sort of great work and effort.<br /> Lon D. Lewis, BS Chemical Engineering U.Wyo 1962.</p> </div> </dd><dt class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-4011"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="comment_author">JDB</span> <span class="comment_time"><a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/#comment-4011" title="Permalink to this comment" rel="nofollow">November 8, 2011 at 9:30 am</a></span> </dt><dd class="comment even thread-even depth-1"> <div class="format_text" id="comment-body-4011"> <p>“The hue and cry from the uppity eggheads would be deafening without qualification .<br />The uppityness, impertinance and arrogance of dismissing my words, and reading threats where none were made saddens me.”</p> <p>No, Lubnau, you weren’t threatening anyone. You obviously have great respect for those who think differently than you–those who have dedicated their lives to learning. Art’s job is to start the conversation. When has the energy industry started the conversation about where it needs to improve? It has fought tooth and nail for deregulation and to spread misinformation. We all benefit from the energy industry in this state, which was admitted time and again in this piece, but the fact that you and the other pit-bull defenders of big-energy ignore that and try to draw black and white lines, try to foster hatred in your constituency against educators and “Artists” (nice quotes) is sickening. Shame on you for that, for your reaction to this piece.</p> </div> </dd><dt class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-4009"> <span class="avatar"></span> <span class="comment_author">Tom Lubnau</span> <span class="comment_time"><a href="http://wyofile.com/2011/11/art-energy-coals-reaction-to-carbon-sink-sculpture-reveals-the-power-of-art-%e2%80%94-and-the-essence-of-education/#comment-4009" title="Permalink to this comment" rel="nofollow">November 8, 2011 at 6:50 am</a></span> </dt><dd class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1"> <div class="format_text" id="comment-body-4009"> <p>I am often amazed at the presumptious nature of folks who want to read or imply messages in my words to construe them to their own meaning, for their own policital purposes and to create controversy where none really exists. Because I am conservative and because I represent one of the areas key in generating the revenue necessary to operate this state, I often have to preface my commentary with statements like, “I am a great supporter of the University of Wyoming, and I would never tinker with their funding stream” because if I simply said, “This sculpture gives me an opportunity to discuss from where UW’s funding comes” the hue and cry from the uppity eggheads would be deafening without qualification .<br /> The uppityness, impertinance and arrogance of dismissing my words, and reading threats where none were made saddens me. I commented on the meaning a particular piece of art. And, isn’t that the point — for art to inspire commentary. Or, is there a double standard that art should inspire only the commentary desired by a particular group of “artists” with a particular point of view?</p> </div> </dd></dl>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-70314945117855444262011-10-26T03:39:00.000-07:002011-10-26T05:07:42.533-07:00Some people with stories<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdDbRqMJAAc1VQC3EE6RWIaijKM8uuTRbrvnzAkqXuGd8dTPAHkVit4hMHV85O4piLYrocTwpddzKMJDhV_f66UE2tnIHAKVcpxKYjJfV84iRv_6l5SJN1XWeeZEl3o2a1vzBmA/s1600/Rachel.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdDbRqMJAAc1VQC3EE6RWIaijKM8uuTRbrvnzAkqXuGd8dTPAHkVit4hMHV85O4piLYrocTwpddzKMJDhV_f66UE2tnIHAKVcpxKYjJfV84iRv_6l5SJN1XWeeZEl3o2a1vzBmA/s400/Rachel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667770930429780994" border="0" /></a>Rachel<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEa2b0inTgzOoNP1sW8rGc4UGB1_eX4Px2h8cHw9XplaLTCM4at0IfpRw_U5Ah4mKXXBMnVGaJ5r98Vmbug_pnJVEwbLQXc3ZT9yf_n-gaLXSEi7J80l8_2Iz9qal3KC9_YQ75mQ/s1600/San.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70DsaUsdNYlE1ZTILnejcKUCa1hw_iCLNu-ptFqy6H1SF1XoUGZK0EyCoVa1nTEtZUDwmXFjrIPIj9abuQRQne1PXBndlw7IFtcwlt84lRTenEtX4z0XdrBAOkgK2Y4ghh6T66g/s400/Alpheus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667754661469673298" border="0" /></a>Alpheus<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD_Qmu-MjXfhIXyJ2LKlS1McbA2jrz8LRfcek1M5rPHHmWegrd2c3zi-9OqgFEBzf1xSl4f5bEMZHpwMYTLoOK5KdzV36NP-UWkllPgS-MR3wZyVW983VE03r9PQGjp-DHxwk_rg/s1600/_DSC4952.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD_Qmu-MjXfhIXyJ2LKlS1McbA2jrz8LRfcek1M5rPHHmWegrd2c3zi-9OqgFEBzf1xSl4f5bEMZHpwMYTLoOK5KdzV36NP-UWkllPgS-MR3wZyVW983VE03r9PQGjp-DHxwk_rg/s400/_DSC4952.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667754655064343618" border="0" /></a>MariaChris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-55131702941675406422011-10-26T00:06:00.000-07:002011-10-26T01:34:00.290-07:00Layers of Time and Waves of EventsThis is my last day here. I have been collating all the research I have done. Lining up all my collected objects, and collecting stories from the various people here who have agreed to do a portrait.<br /><br />Of the research, my hunch is that the work should be about revealing what is hidden. This includes the rock and cave systems that underlie the Cradle, which have been slowly giving up their secrets in the fossil layers of plants, algae, sea creatures, and the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">fossilised</span> remains of animals and early hominids going back 2 million years. Within this time line have been several catastrophic events including 3 magnetic pole reverses, which will led to the deaths of the hominids seeking water under the ground.<br /><br />Going back further to the Impact event 2 billion years ago, a time when plants were just beginning to create oxygen from CO2. This event will have altered the rock beds in the cradle creating caves which slope gently into the rock. This destruction may well have upset things enough to kick start more life forces, which you could say was a creative event. The Earth has seen cycles of destruction and creation. From melted rock created during the asteroid impact, you get a line of rock boulders which 10,000 years ago San people use as a rain making site to encourage the cycle of life of which they were a part.<br /><br />Just as behind each person I have met here, is a hidden story, so the Earth itself reveals glimpses of its hidden layers of history going back to the formation of the Earths' crust 4 billion years ago:<br />layers of time and waves of events.<br /><br />My intention is to try to encapsulate some of this in a small rock chamber, set under some trees and within a circle of revealed bedrock. The interior of the chamber will plot the movement of the sun over a year and will have drawings in iron oxide on the walls - alluding to plants, fossils, shattered rock, time and waves as in sound waves, shock waves, waves of events.<br /><br />Over the coming months I will be planning these drawings as works on paper and as prints as well as using geological and topographic maps. I will also begin work on transforming the portrait images into the stories given me by the various individuals. Then it is hoped I will return to make the chamber and show the works on paper in a space in Johannesburg, perhaps during the art fair here next September.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEE4tUD2dAycYlglW9tPWr_CO3MxCJ83f4S2amcaeJTuH6pLc55ytL3AKxo_j-GgzjHrQa5qLUUt9xvxUWXH3tscp_msPFkba15lDgWu8Qgy2GdIP5AloRpH5_KNuHCaS6zDzX7g/s1600/_DSC5256.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEE4tUD2dAycYlglW9tPWr_CO3MxCJ83f4S2amcaeJTuH6pLc55ytL3AKxo_j-GgzjHrQa5qLUUt9xvxUWXH3tscp_msPFkba15lDgWu8Qgy2GdIP5AloRpH5_KNuHCaS6zDzX7g/s400/_DSC5256.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667713421937342018" border="0" /></a>Studio and objects<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhf4IW4TFJvjBCG-BM-8_CGZpZDi5uTeJr1wm0YJ_VCzlIkh0JonP22mh4JdWJK8COCurcs0Mna_BUaYSfbMI2XrPijCAP-nJTsFqxZEjtZKwgcQxyP9dNTsY8qPDCAEloeSDfg/s1600/_DSC5252.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZjNVEpWiRNRrR6j6aTPvBGDAnk7KnyYxebE4DCpHS6gibwXWyz18BXZY_o0vtgbBL14a31_eKndKDjIlINpvYOuAx1pB7mcbumTOQDMeMzu3c19-BTVKd8MVSDzZEndnypn_xw/s400/Tortoise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667706326477282290" border="0" /></a>Tortoise shells<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmKiV1BXsh3lo9hTk0_rJvtMKyjWj9eH7Wtn0upo4R-uSeOqSBbnW3kjPJTO30vo3hXD3z9zI-PztNvxrfiUvJxffF35TB2lxmI09h0LVSoRoyaXoD-mncnQBPJOlWbypMJPsug/s1600/_DSC5233.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmKiV1BXsh3lo9hTk0_rJvtMKyjWj9eH7Wtn0upo4R-uSeOqSBbnW3kjPJTO30vo3hXD3z9zI-PztNvxrfiUvJxffF35TB2lxmI09h0LVSoRoyaXoD-mncnQBPJOlWbypMJPsug/s400/_DSC5233.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667706320383087490" border="0" /></a>Creation Destruction rocks, from The Cradle of Humankind and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Vredefort</span> Impact dome<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwyTWpqK31ZtMpdCcNV8UqVaikKx0Qk-c1QWiKprWsV8oWjNeM8V0lsOcOGgs_MgELcnyHBfIgZ0eg-dLE7I5J3fj_06oNQNAzNlc1eJFVEF5ifzqjyGX8tg7AXQ7NrKq_9VuBA/s1600/_DSC5241.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwyTWpqK31ZtMpdCcNV8UqVaikKx0Qk-c1QWiKprWsV8oWjNeM8V0lsOcOGgs_MgELcnyHBfIgZ0eg-dLE7I5J3fj_06oNQNAzNlc1eJFVEF5ifzqjyGX8tg7AXQ7NrKq_9VuBA/s400/_DSC5241.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667713418489555394" border="0" /></a><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Stromatolites</span>: plants which began the process of creating oxygen on the planet - Cradle<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44FUailUMtQkbyctZ-IObqvjba9Fh694BnZSS_rYCBzd-_7M0kUVFMcxX3rhSC3_OBxo_NTxPKwT2Vo9PNYRiiNhxlsMhEcs_cTfT5n-9aUg0zKVksKtP63o4ikykni2ys-IGEw/s1600/Time+wave+Chamber+drawing.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44FUailUMtQkbyctZ-IObqvjba9Fh694BnZSS_rYCBzd-_7M0kUVFMcxX3rhSC3_OBxo_NTxPKwT2Vo9PNYRiiNhxlsMhEcs_cTfT5n-9aUg0zKVksKtP63o4ikykni2ys-IGEw/s400/Time+wave+Chamber+drawing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667706317397334386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSCtB1DqFaX2AZaexfppyefFYHN0LdfUYsddgNRWz0udWV1AdVzMoUwgHe6y0A2wJbOkW8Mh9PaQxFcGDmMFPen8gC7iImSCBYkdo9LcK9Js1Wo9kQ-8q2pRjmHBQCRqlCK1en3A/s1600/Drawing+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSCtB1DqFaX2AZaexfppyefFYHN0LdfUYsddgNRWz0udWV1AdVzMoUwgHe6y0A2wJbOkW8Mh9PaQxFcGDmMFPen8gC7iImSCBYkdo9LcK9Js1Wo9kQ-8q2pRjmHBQCRqlCK1en3A/s400/Drawing+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667706317302772850" border="0" /></a>Drawings for Time/Wave chamberChris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-64415481504487737252011-10-19T10:20:00.000-07:002011-10-19T12:05:13.281-07:00San rock drawings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JV_C46ey54B8uYkRy5pGZlfHWOKKsGD0uz5x-xDgWpkIVOrICYwOtlbvUblszNswqfbBrd-JQAKWiNdVh-Q54CITVqzxTBY_u5uyHkG-kBl6mgY2aOkdUGvw9V5JL-IcsfrmFw/s1600/Bushman%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JV_C46ey54B8uYkRy5pGZlfHWOKKsGD0uz5x-xDgWpkIVOrICYwOtlbvUblszNswqfbBrd-JQAKWiNdVh-Q54CITVqzxTBY_u5uyHkG-kBl6mgY2aOkdUGvw9V5JL-IcsfrmFw/s400/Bushman%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665271595512939746" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Bushman</span><br /><br />In Johannesburg at Wits University is the Origins Centre, a remarkable museum of early man, displaying skulls, tools, rock drawings and some remarkable film of San bushmen killing an Eland, doing a healing trance dance and talking about the various aspects of the paintings, dance, healing and ways into another world, through cracks in the rock, or down a termite nest.<br /><br />All of this came as a jolt to me because at Nirox I have been thinking along the lines of a chamber into another world; inside/outside, revealing the cracked dolomite paving rocks, and the significance of caves and the underworld, which have revealed the remains of very early hominids. Here at the museum and earlier out at the dome I have encountered just that in the San rock art.<br /><br />My introduction to the Origin Centre came through Hugh Brody in London, who put me in touch with Ben Smith at the Centre, and Ben advised that I take a drive out to a farm 2 hours from here to see more petroglyphs and to the Drakensburgs to see rock paintings, copies of which he showed me at the museum. These paintings are going fast, vandalism, rain etc etc. so they are making meticulous tracings. They are also in the process of trying to get all of world rock paintings onto a web site because there are so many crossovers between cultures.<br /><br />So today I drove out with Stephan to Bosworth Farm, just north of the impact Dome. There we were given tea by Dr Neil Orford and his wife. They have a stud farm for race horses and Sussex Cattle. Neil worked as a vet in Sussex, many years ago. He has also had many encounters with modern day bushmen who have worked for him on various farms and he has nothing but praise for them. he even reminded me that Mandela has strong bushman blood in his veins (you can see it in his face) which accounts for his compassion and intelligence.<br /><br />So Neil then handed us over to Petreus who was to be our guide for the morning. The three of us drove up to a low boulder strewn hill. Clouds were gathering and the sky was looking somewhat black. We were a bit apprehensive because the rock has a lot of iron in it and attracts lightning!<br /><br />At the gateway to the hill was a single standing figure with very obvious San features. From then on we threaded our way between rocks, Petreus pointing out drawings which we would never have noticed. Subtly pecked into the rock, these are the most delicate, tender and beautiful of images, drawn with great surety, not for the sake of art but to heal someone or to give a sense of power for anyone who later touches them.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGIiSukwfOR5cJtwKt_RoyvmG6Q_vuMl6l8nvkZ_nNpDVhGT8xqgcw_Mwxu8qxCG0YDbzCukSG7hWhJwP8va7HcuVjlsoKn22LKng8KaxnM-rmnVMZivhMfrWqdGrgWeDGKFatwA/s1600/searching.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGIiSukwfOR5cJtwKt_RoyvmG6Q_vuMl6l8nvkZ_nNpDVhGT8xqgcw_Mwxu8qxCG0YDbzCukSG7hWhJwP8va7HcuVjlsoKn22LKng8KaxnM-rmnVMZivhMfrWqdGrgWeDGKFatwA/s400/searching.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665271593193164514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Searching for drawings</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifCv81x8ZvASeLinwm1nZdkTBlCjC4T1fTr5Q56YNR4EnWj5oqlI1Ts4_CwICM2pjLa9H5d5eC5wggQ-nBVSVw8QUrnLFaokAUQs9NkggnVGGLn12z0nuxKYAbAtnkjzNiBx6o-Q/s1600/Stephan+and+Petreus.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-dtUjaUgFhmu9gFB6dWUTKDYG8Xa84L5w8IaGh5Z_T-hi3MBU2eIZINwJdNgh2CiWnlEuz6aO5eaLFBYuVmbXjkmSZ93Nf_yDwv8FXRn74Xkv-8U0ln39zkVEhkZaJ5EE5t6Gw/s400/Rhino%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665268599381544402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Rhino</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GpKR_WjdIoUrePpXiHTDWvEyrEqThyphenhyphen-wqvE-rn64XLJ5vmnGx5_WuVd4Eu2L4nf72L1VJkMKeXktwMPmOzt7wKS0fDXB519vfRQkmIVAIFRV3Zb8pCm7bwnADpG7jEqGnfa16w/s1600/Lion%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GpKR_WjdIoUrePpXiHTDWvEyrEqThyphenhyphen-wqvE-rn64XLJ5vmnGx5_WuVd4Eu2L4nf72L1VJkMKeXktwMPmOzt7wKS0fDXB519vfRQkmIVAIFRV3Zb8pCm7bwnADpG7jEqGnfa16w/s400/Lion%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665268594619562914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Lion</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q7wSe-tYDLN3zPkQ_-Zdf_RY_uG8YLKwyDnRhjwyIBvB-CgG6ugh4ud7Z-FDh1nMelsdaxJ2G3LHIbTr35rbK2FDRERCOsSu6pNKGDCUn0avkhq4wG6cBRppSDcu67vX_dFjmQ/s1600/Hippo%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q7wSe-tYDLN3zPkQ_-Zdf_RY_uG8YLKwyDnRhjwyIBvB-CgG6ugh4ud7Z-FDh1nMelsdaxJ2G3LHIbTr35rbK2FDRERCOsSu6pNKGDCUn0avkhq4wG6cBRppSDcu67vX_dFjmQ/s400/Hippo%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665268588477613058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Hippo</span> emerging<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dalzLFG668yPud4TIkBLMJsCV6LxVo3xxkCLnr87bCm9p9oATwXJQWgtdyKLCOTYWnRWqWmdFHFDHWA7khTCP5Lh2zgVCwVODTgEaaV5j1j0XebruLZ0-GQb30SpiSlrvqLdvg/s1600/_DSC5135%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dalzLFG668yPud4TIkBLMJsCV6LxVo3xxkCLnr87bCm9p9oATwXJQWgtdyKLCOTYWnRWqWmdFHFDHWA7khTCP5Lh2zgVCwVODTgEaaV5j1j0XebruLZ0-GQb30SpiSlrvqLdvg/s400/_DSC5135%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665268584587737282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Eland</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sGOLru_t14caPf3or7foRhLKxn1AMQgiobdjL9Lw4fidMb6s3TyHBeYuAw997fxFNuCxDB9vGUKqOHXyhhnqnNd2zQWaC1y5fHrWfKqduT1fyA0YBXNSvzxaHbc5BNosF_Uaqw/s1600/Heartbeast%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sGOLru_t14caPf3or7foRhLKxn1AMQgiobdjL9Lw4fidMb6s3TyHBeYuAw997fxFNuCxDB9vGUKqOHXyhhnqnNd2zQWaC1y5fHrWfKqduT1fyA0YBXNSvzxaHbc5BNosF_Uaqw/s400/Heartbeast%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665267174743283778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Hartebeest</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwBJpQdwWAO3xIqJjmnOXc5qhP6XwxOHziHadO_FoMEMW2YaEJOGHfLxDR558g9N5mmIreooURqSu5k2IhTimhFzSyZyXE48dTPIU_1VbLtRBCWq2AsdSTwT0RK68dMHcS2k3hg/s1600/_DSC5122%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwBJpQdwWAO3xIqJjmnOXc5qhP6XwxOHziHadO_FoMEMW2YaEJOGHfLxDR558g9N5mmIreooURqSu5k2IhTimhFzSyZyXE48dTPIU_1VbLtRBCWq2AsdSTwT0RK68dMHcS2k3hg/s400/_DSC5122%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665267163650305026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQw_pZlnE1ZQrgas5818YN3cfKHloQwa6V6o7SOhxfKGJzy05l0Uf1rzhlEl_0LcpXcZfRqbHkoK9ULhWdZEiSoGo4Tdk3H-S1EOoRN0y4a6dgn32JeHJcJfWvEaCTIG5L6F8Rw/s1600/Elephant%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQw_pZlnE1ZQrgas5818YN3cfKHloQwa6V6o7SOhxfKGJzy05l0Uf1rzhlEl_0LcpXcZfRqbHkoK9ULhWdZEiSoGo4Tdk3H-S1EOoRN0y4a6dgn32JeHJcJfWvEaCTIG5L6F8Rw/s400/Elephant%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665267174126051314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Elephant</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObBtTfvGOI2JpgkvDwrfdhfO49Dz1H3MKcdmSQi9_u2PDKFRjREiMdTRgC2_hg12IsNVUmU-NjEfCNeH2g2J2cGfnv_ePwxLTkLcmhuOEU5psOjTOT3M04AsfLLNen4OM7aFilQ/s1600/Zebra%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObBtTfvGOI2JpgkvDwrfdhfO49Dz1H3MKcdmSQi9_u2PDKFRjREiMdTRgC2_hg12IsNVUmU-NjEfCNeH2g2J2cGfnv_ePwxLTkLcmhuOEU5psOjTOT3M04AsfLLNen4OM7aFilQ/s400/Zebra%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665270853767869330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Zebra</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4srXTTMV8oqCZL9c7LqHRzD6e9CTqqI2nYOyt7eQ-EXbB-xJ95_sjuaY7kXnP1tn5pLjAEVQXQeYR0jqmbZBJwa6afy0ymbcRkxIQRt9bqgtw_Bc0ZX3PiZl2Q05xvx8BenSPGg/s1600/Lovers%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4srXTTMV8oqCZL9c7LqHRzD6e9CTqqI2nYOyt7eQ-EXbB-xJ95_sjuaY7kXnP1tn5pLjAEVQXQeYR0jqmbZBJwa6afy0ymbcRkxIQRt9bqgtw_Bc0ZX3PiZl2Q05xvx8BenSPGg/s400/Lovers%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665270858527109474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Lovers</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0MJXZtH8Q3bm4vy0kVwvUmfIb2076L5plYe8aUWIpjAHMLbOREs6-_wnxp0Sjbwqe257CmCOq3cQIG-FIlxvcIM5IaEpeFH9UsdsykXV9e11u5YhtvQVYu5Nxm-Wd23Mrbk_OxA/s1600/Eland%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0MJXZtH8Q3bm4vy0kVwvUmfIb2076L5plYe8aUWIpjAHMLbOREs6-_wnxp0Sjbwqe257CmCOq3cQIG-FIlxvcIM5IaEpeFH9UsdsykXV9e11u5YhtvQVYu5Nxm-Wd23Mrbk_OxA/s400/Eland%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665267168042552258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Eland</span><br /><br />As well as the animal and human drawings there many more hallucinatory images which looked to be the kind of images which might come up during a trance dance. As well as these, there are the purely abstract patterns which Petreus says denote that here a healing took place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiRIjFusDtIwG46ubY4tPAStqKQkytGQbEshbOguHAv9uOZNhdmZFtX6iP8dM8bwx1uzwfD9GMDtDP2xCsxMIEUO7O-rM3aNFkr2AMvQra3LGHh1ZETVCx8FQuGNHQ9tWmltRJuw/s1600/Halucination.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiRIjFusDtIwG46ubY4tPAStqKQkytGQbEshbOguHAv9uOZNhdmZFtX6iP8dM8bwx1uzwfD9GMDtDP2xCsxMIEUO7O-rM3aNFkr2AMvQra3LGHh1ZETVCx8FQuGNHQ9tWmltRJuw/s400/Halucination.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665270854403114674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Hallucinatory</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">beings</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhctlo1N2V5uOYpupZCSxgWAE6CE1TTkjO4VBMjUEL-llY99Hn-MfPtyJ7-7I_pBL_KRVEKPUZp0V0xh468GoMYz9wrmSSJB5tOhEocE_MBPeHUbNSEsSFdinlvQszeBOe2t9iyug/s1600/Healing+site+marks%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhctlo1N2V5uOYpupZCSxgWAE6CE1TTkjO4VBMjUEL-llY99Hn-MfPtyJ7-7I_pBL_KRVEKPUZp0V0xh468GoMYz9wrmSSJB5tOhEocE_MBPeHUbNSEsSFdinlvQszeBOe2t9iyug/s400/Healing+site+marks%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665267161695459186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Healing place</span><br /><br />Many of the drawings are so faded in color, that without Petreus keen eyes and awareness we would never have known just what we were looking at. Most of the drawings face the slope down to the river where many of these animals were to be found. You stand in front of them, they may have been done 300, 3000, or 30,000 years ago, no one knows for sure, but tears come to your eyes and you are gripped by both sadness and elation.<br /><br />As we return to Nirox the storm finally breaks and there is rain, hail, thunder and lightning. Nature demonstrates its power and the first rains of Spring have arrived.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-77367468793390506682011-10-14T11:01:00.000-07:002011-10-15T05:01:46.706-07:00Vredefort - an impact CraterAs part of my research into the geology and archeology of the area I had asked to visit the Vredefort Impact Crater. 2 Billion years ago an asteroid hit the earth at this spot, creating a crater 300 km across with an impact dome in the middle 90 Km. across. This dome was formed by compressed rock coming back up again, like a rain drop does in a bowl of water. It was the remains of this dome which we were due to visit with the Geologist from Wits, Professor Roger Gibson. We spent the morning exclusively with him, looking at the rock at ground Zero, the various impact melt and fractured rock at the domes edge, and then after lunch joined a bigger tour looking at all the various rock, iron age settlements, Voer trekker farms, early gold mines, Boer war sites and ending up at a seam of melt rock, in the plains near the centre, called pseudotachylite on which were San petroglyphs of various animals and spirit creatures.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBb5zd-l1ML9WaXMXZ0yn1a4OnEGgZ75_6pKfO4SXai8Scq5qzG8MYQ1l2NcOqbew93RM7fmu-cFFzQWQp5BfRfC6qI-aTrgqzsCKK0Xl9P3ZNwk-R0-Wr5cvvQgc96Rb0iTKWQ/s1600/crater.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBb5zd-l1ML9WaXMXZ0yn1a4OnEGgZ75_6pKfO4SXai8Scq5qzG8MYQ1l2NcOqbew93RM7fmu-cFFzQWQp5BfRfC6qI-aTrgqzsCKK0Xl9P3ZNwk-R0-Wr5cvvQgc96Rb0iTKWQ/s400/crater.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663415045060697730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">All the rocks on this hill at the edge of what was a dome have been lifted from the horizontal to the vertical and shattered. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJK1k7kUl2ypRLHxL-ppZQSROaGF8IzgijIRK-4gcViiJPij0BtwG5J4RBuutCok0ZPmgwHir21gRfuBskuNVXsEfxxYhFyin2FUbzXtLWs4t1-2dsKy5TN6-OOevuaW49iNmng/s1600/rim.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuJK1k7kUl2ypRLHxL-ppZQSROaGF8IzgijIRK-4gcViiJPij0BtwG5J4RBuutCok0ZPmgwHir21gRfuBskuNVXsEfxxYhFyin2FUbzXtLWs4t1-2dsKy5TN6-OOevuaW49iNmng/s400/rim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663415035957442210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">On the edge of what was the dome looking at seams of pseudotachylite</span><br /><br />We crossed the Vaal river and headed into the haze of the centre to what was ground zero and is now a shallow lake caused when an ice sheet, which was at some time responsible for eroding the dome, created a hollow. There are granite boulders strewn across the plain. These are some of the oldest rocks on earth, formed over 4 billion years ago when the earths crust solidified. These rocks formed the bedrock of the dome, ie the bottom of the impact. Everything else, including the asteroid was simply vaporised or hurled into the air. You would have had 4 K square blocks of rock hurled 40 k into the air. Everything beneath the surface was compressed and then sprung back up.<br /><br />At the centre here, the impact of this 10 km. long flying piece of rock traveling at thousands of miles an hour was massive. The granite was heated, melted and fractured forming pockets of melt known as Granophyre in what had become a kind of plasticine rock. Its rapid cooling meant that this melted rock formed a kind of black glass, a tiny percentage of which is meteorite.<br />As the rock shattered it formed cracks which in grating together heated the rock to around 14,00 degrees, almost double the heat which will normally melt rock. The resulting liquid melt ran into all of the cracks, some of them several metres wide. this again is the fine grained, black pseudotachylite and is a conglomerate of all the melted rock around it. It takes this new form because it cools rapidly, so being unable to reform its original crystalline state.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURtDOWsGuvVqOSFcNcdzsHZMTfO2JsOzmpnz9le0MyZIwcuC_bbWdsLtodbyLTvKLqLu0aahWjPYUX9lIpR5T8-HZfQGGg3kvxvHcdRzQah_DAU2G2QDGFmL96nJkwx8ZxnKitg/s1600/Pseudo+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURtDOWsGuvVqOSFcNcdzsHZMTfO2JsOzmpnz9le0MyZIwcuC_bbWdsLtodbyLTvKLqLu0aahWjPYUX9lIpR5T8-HZfQGGg3kvxvHcdRzQah_DAU2G2QDGFmL96nJkwx8ZxnKitg/s400/Pseudo+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663663088361525602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnb8h8qKASK-ebbZ1cY98uYco-E6ieuCqRVi0kmoUjM6l0McuapFU5gOdX1h55WZj8mir72hhogeYeAk74nv0phNSa-u5CloK-Emuzbd5mWtVGGn6dt0hFNtW0rvXguJVTjd-UQ/s1600/Pseudo1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnb8h8qKASK-ebbZ1cY98uYco-E6ieuCqRVi0kmoUjM6l0McuapFU5gOdX1h55WZj8mir72hhogeYeAk74nv0phNSa-u5CloK-Emuzbd5mWtVGGn6dt0hFNtW0rvXguJVTjd-UQ/s400/Pseudo1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663663082047810306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">pseudotachylite breccia within granite. Friction in the cracks, seconds after impact, melted the rock which ran into the cracks</span><br /><br />After lunch we joined a bigger tour and headed for the old gold mines and Boer war sites.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UH-u-igGHjyCzWmsqfL5Hz6CoX6ez2zHwzn0doHURd2UPy_mXSr8fof65j_M_b1I9PKJU9qpTaxAr7asnSDG8Sa0Fnjdl9vQOoj-uKrVW2ByknUF4ouPOIHoaJMw8JVCT19VRw/s1600/Vaal.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UH-u-igGHjyCzWmsqfL5Hz6CoX6ez2zHwzn0doHURd2UPy_mXSr8fof65j_M_b1I9PKJU9qpTaxAr7asnSDG8Sa0Fnjdl9vQOoj-uKrVW2ByknUF4ouPOIHoaJMw8JVCT19VRw/s400/Vaal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663666909373038290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Upended quartzite</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">on the Vaal river which cuts through the dome</span>. <span style="font-size:85%;">These l</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ayers of rock are ancient beaches</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWze5cnXVi9ddCHdZ1tXPHpqrJjjXQuDaFO2j0tnNw3p-kneXjWbGHUnBSanS6vUElxnwiZ1stfAOo8H-nRh4rz6fhrJVG5fMH746iJaktrXxkdBESR4Q1ZsWT1lGV_sQ46dJBrA/s1600/Gold.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWze5cnXVi9ddCHdZ1tXPHpqrJjjXQuDaFO2j0tnNw3p-kneXjWbGHUnBSanS6vUElxnwiZ1stfAOo8H-nRh4rz6fhrJVG5fMH746iJaktrXxkdBESR4Q1ZsWT1lGV_sQ46dJBrA/s400/Gold.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663666917540239330" border="0" /></a>s<span style="font-size:85%;">earching for gold in the ancient river deposits.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyFZ4REOp18qsh2BIho3HKAG0QtlUEPyE_Lbuac0_bweVY1wFfbRLuitfrTQXddk5t-E3LZ7HkuNzjyriAuYellzhuWTpc4QqtLSIhAoQ9wHG0As67d4lwlY9w9gYZLiFdLlHxg/s1600/Roger.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcyFZ4REOp18qsh2BIho3HKAG0QtlUEPyE_Lbuac0_bweVY1wFfbRLuitfrTQXddk5t-E3LZ7HkuNzjyriAuYellzhuWTpc4QqtLSIhAoQ9wHG0As67d4lwlY9w9gYZLiFdLlHxg/s400/Roger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663666925137053810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Roger explaining the significance of the shatter patterns in the rock.</span><br /><br />As the sun dropped lower in the sky we walked across flat farmland near the centre, headed for a small tree and a line of boulders on the horizon. This is a pseudotachylite fault line, eroded into a line of massive boulders. There is evidence here of massive destruction 2 billion years ago, but 10,000 years ago, San bushmen were using this place as a sacred rain making line. For some reason the rocks have attracted acid drips of water, either from trees, or from a since eroded porous rock. As a result these rocks have little depressions and cups within them which hold water. Rain brings the migrating animals onto fresh grass and so it is here on these rocks, which were once melted at 1,400 degrees centigrade, that the bushmen chipped images of animals and possibly a rain man.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVX6cd0UAT1GhYAp9zFfV-bVHBwnGiAFJ3CIeUTC0NZlrSJEjhaWRZJfUOELwxk9sOCSFudgPUoA4PBWgCENOzQAWpcXaTrldqX7mFSo6ZHuoyD23YERpF5arg3aJwNF-YfVmLSw/s1600/Rock+line.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVX6cd0UAT1GhYAp9zFfV-bVHBwnGiAFJ3CIeUTC0NZlrSJEjhaWRZJfUOELwxk9sOCSFudgPUoA4PBWgCENOzQAWpcXaTrldqX7mFSo6ZHuoyD23YERpF5arg3aJwNF-YfVmLSw/s400/Rock+line.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663679590791226706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Pseudotachylite fault line of melt boulders</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZPvReJohvwO7w57vPS8N8ypZbx98YdZ2owGukAq_6QqPz_oPvSK0jr3FZpFbTr9tVP1UXSazR2t4qShenmaqI61AOfskdCe23tnNY3F4J5Qcj58TDnfMGDY-kx2iMkclyHWJWA/s1600/Water+stonesjpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZPvReJohvwO7w57vPS8N8ypZbx98YdZ2owGukAq_6QqPz_oPvSK0jr3FZpFbTr9tVP1UXSazR2t4qShenmaqI61AOfskdCe23tnNY3F4J5Qcj58TDnfMGDY-kx2iMkclyHWJWA/s400/Water+stonesjpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663677417900297314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Water cup rocks</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ0ynZTCZmtce_w8M2Jp7asP4mc_4CgwFaibB93O77S5CZuXS7D9hkpCP0lm_HXKlJCHCan3FynlcyQeeg3yYhZVg1_NutH_tpy6P2Jr79RZRGhatYBnrLEzl9FoGHd9mWu7GPg/s1600/antelope.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ0ynZTCZmtce_w8M2Jp7asP4mc_4CgwFaibB93O77S5CZuXS7D9hkpCP0lm_HXKlJCHCan3FynlcyQeeg3yYhZVg1_NutH_tpy6P2Jr79RZRGhatYBnrLEzl9FoGHd9mWu7GPg/s400/antelope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663685842520308658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Eland</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICmB1Ai5clrCMwcbP8o5_YEuI18EMSxq-ISmFn8XbuWpxtwLUCiX0DTfWyGMAfnIT-N7D1jkn9hcWlp8klduLZRuwVKC2SbSygYiTJi0D_F2iGuIxCu81jr1nzXWwyu1rDAlMJQ/s1600/Rhino.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICmB1Ai5clrCMwcbP8o5_YEuI18EMSxq-ISmFn8XbuWpxtwLUCiX0DTfWyGMAfnIT-N7D1jkn9hcWlp8klduLZRuwVKC2SbSygYiTJi0D_F2iGuIxCu81jr1nzXWwyu1rDAlMJQ/s400/Rhino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663677414606420994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Rhino</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTY-3Ib1fDirn5OW_s3y-mQbJvnSFrkhVToLfS4RpAwqsjJa7ef7n0z6JYG7A4YdQyhgRyx92f4MouZze0Jkb56vsUDzQnM78A_UZGXRHfXMy_h-y8zEEzRCXlir4nlBarz0jAkw/s1600/Hippo3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTY-3Ib1fDirn5OW_s3y-mQbJvnSFrkhVToLfS4RpAwqsjJa7ef7n0z6JYG7A4YdQyhgRyx92f4MouZze0Jkb56vsUDzQnM78A_UZGXRHfXMy_h-y8zEEzRCXlir4nlBarz0jAkw/s400/Hippo3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663677402885005074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Hippo</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EFamqjzQoL82CYcEJW2kyBm3LQQhXJbk-pCePN6Sv7ThKOyF3egdi5HzZnl1J9KSZCMvCEw1U0mtuOKNznIjxFuRpwmsYTepxVMXX3sGkP36suWlLmYoFesC7OOlXdCKDNsIVA/s1600/roebuck.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EFamqjzQoL82CYcEJW2kyBm3LQQhXJbk-pCePN6Sv7ThKOyF3egdi5HzZnl1J9KSZCMvCEw1U0mtuOKNznIjxFuRpwmsYTepxVMXX3sGkP36suWlLmYoFesC7OOlXdCKDNsIVA/s400/roebuck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663677427549318754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Hyena</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRorR5_yN643N9Hi14Mlf_vjL8y7dEbmg0C3iIdkNc2kkUiMzjTir7Zd0eFzeJfM7YvUjhXeGQl7iX-3ENI5p1Hup8TuIbwx40oJKTtULNScMEEHxQltEmOJRUoOuZuKl60xLj8g/s1600/Wildebeast.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRorR5_yN643N9Hi14Mlf_vjL8y7dEbmg0C3iIdkNc2kkUiMzjTir7Zd0eFzeJfM7YvUjhXeGQl7iX-3ENI5p1Hup8TuIbwx40oJKTtULNScMEEHxQltEmOJRUoOuZuKl60xLj8g/s400/Wildebeast.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663679592879136738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Wildebeest/Eland</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gYW1O7gYrvELuwx9bCvrPywZ173yI4cW3FqlFCD7Zwq41PGLhJ7zQGUJyNcGpoQXJPii9A7OYoidOMFPxrtd371bV7I6YZnXq2FXEoOofpdXTe4-eItzdnUhm-VWwvk7kOxOqA/s1600/Horned+figure.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gYW1O7gYrvELuwx9bCvrPywZ173yI4cW3FqlFCD7Zwq41PGLhJ7zQGUJyNcGpoQXJPii9A7OYoidOMFPxrtd371bV7I6YZnXq2FXEoOofpdXTe4-eItzdnUhm-VWwvk7kOxOqA/s400/Horned+figure.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663679606586853154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Horned rain man?</span><br /><br />As the sun sinks low we head back after a very long but extraordinary day, where we have looked at evidence of absolute destruction. A mountain sized rock traveling at 10 Km per second, blasts the Earth causing a fireball with temperatures up to 20,000 degrees centigrade and penetrating 40 Km into the bedrock, creating a 90 Km dome in a 300 Km crater. All this in about 10 minutes max. Early hominids will have lived in the area as they did in the Cradle 2 million years ago, and 10,000 years ago the San will have seen evidence in the rock of water and life. Perhaps the rocks allowed for the growth of trees which attract water and animals seeking shade. The San turned this site of destruction into a place of creation. Creation, destruction, creation, destruction, creation.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6agmSMWS5th7rCjBxMjmu4L7-4evf3om_nzVpDvahSnKpWM8dBD2eA49dU7WFXpFuw94Ep52uLO9r-3whZ1LDWa1dLkTyZgNV_NyNatPhstSrs4Zv_hvC5pwL9EBR8OohW4Qsw/s1600/heading+back.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6agmSMWS5th7rCjBxMjmu4L7-4evf3om_nzVpDvahSnKpWM8dBD2eA49dU7WFXpFuw94Ep52uLO9r-3whZ1LDWa1dLkTyZgNV_NyNatPhstSrs4Zv_hvC5pwL9EBR8OohW4Qsw/s400/heading+back.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663679585390052098" border="0" /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-59296579017314774072011-10-10T11:29:00.000-07:002011-10-14T11:01:17.661-07:00Sunday 9th and Monday 10th, NiroxI have been here 3 days now and Nirox appears to be somewhere with a lot going on beneath the surface. It is an exclusive place owned by the wealthy and seen by an invited few. It is mostly white and mostly Afrikaans: a lawyer, a developer, an old school land owner, and a black telecommunications owner. Then there is the manager, the curator and the families of black workers who garden, cook, clean, etc. Just two of them are black South African the rest are migrant workers from divers areas of the subcontinent.<br /><br />Maria, who looks after us in the house comes from Malawi and lives nearby with her husband and 4 children. Most of these workers have their families with them and live in small houses within Nirox. Alpheous is about to be married and has just had the all clear on an HIV test.<br /><br />It is a place of hidden dimensions and interesting. It is of course the cradle of humankind and I am beginning to think about revealing the human side of all this, of stripping away the layers and revealing what lies beneath - of doing this on many levels and in many ways. Using story, language and image from both people and place. Of stripping down to essentials and revealing a reality.<br /><br />Into all this comes the wonderful Professor Lee Berger, The paleontologist from Georgia in The US. The guy we saw and talked to today at The University of Witswatersand in Joburg and who captivated us for two hours with tales of his remarkable find in the Cradle. This is the man who, bored with a law degree, left his Ivy league university to do a degree in Geology and Paleontology at a small university in the Southern States, with an enthusiastic teacher. His PhD was in the bones of the shoulder. His amazing journey, from working with Leakey at Olduvai, to his post in South Africa, which lost all its funding, which meant he spent his free time ranging the hills of the Cradle with his son and dog. Eventually he discovered some 500 possible sites which had never been excavated by looking at cave patterns on Google Earth.<br /><br />So there he is one day in August 2008 with his 9 year old son Matthew and his dog, standing by a cave hole in the dolomite rock and he says to his son "lets go look for fossils". Within 3 minutes there is a yell from Matt who is standing several metres away from the hole holding a stone. Better humour him thinks his dad as he walks over. Then in his own words everything went black and white and in slow motion. From 5 yards away he can see a hominid clavicle sticking out of the rock his son is holding and he swears. This is the man who, if you remember, did a PhD on the bones of the shoulder, so he knows what he is looking at.<br /><br />He takes the stone from his son, and turns it around. Protruding from the other side is a complete hominid jaw bone with teeth.These are teeth which are hardly worn because they are the teeth of a 12 year old child. The rest is history - Google 'Malapa Fossil site' and you can read more about it. In the end they found two complete skeletons, which look like they are a cross between Australopithecus and a hominid dated very precisely to within 300,000 years to just under 2 million years old. The missing link if ever there was one! There is even evidence of food on the teeth and perhaps even skin!<br /><br />He took us into the lab, opened up the boxes and showed us what they had excavated to date. So remarkable and powerful are these objects, that what he was handling and showing us; fitting joint to joint, sacrum to pelvis, will be objects that in a thousand years from now will be treated with awe and reverence by all who see them because they changed the knowledge of our origins.<br /><br />So yes Lee Berger adds a whole new dimension to Nirox.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2qELseaqrrOL_K1Qbbteza_TbT_eRpTjJkos93s9nRNJgBBdSOReGMGKQuvyCuq19HsXdTUl9V1B9A6eZVUMNT0YQHLr8h3t1iy3YbSHeZzfUCjIIkCs3O5qW28WBvns5K-NWw/s1600/Lee+and+I.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2qELseaqrrOL_K1Qbbteza_TbT_eRpTjJkos93s9nRNJgBBdSOReGMGKQuvyCuq19HsXdTUl9V1B9A6eZVUMNT0YQHLr8h3t1iy3YbSHeZzfUCjIIkCs3O5qW28WBvns5K-NWw/s400/Lee+and+I.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661950741046171362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cPRlMPeTDCjWVm91LfkYK6sXoKeC5bW-1chDZKbIbvH1_f0w8Z8SJwwBn-I3xLrq6tKcEuyaOfwfp4Z_NM4kMHnQ2WC5bnGhfgun42qudehz3eioejkxbRi5ef584CjuDpEGvQ/s1600/_DSC4883.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cPRlMPeTDCjWVm91LfkYK6sXoKeC5bW-1chDZKbIbvH1_f0w8Z8SJwwBn-I3xLrq6tKcEuyaOfwfp4Z_NM4kMHnQ2WC5bnGhfgun42qudehz3eioejkxbRi5ef584CjuDpEGvQ/s400/_DSC4883.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661950748031450178" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXboSSxDfWWJ0V31CGXBquMRt5qi7g_3V3bRzX1y8vChw7OmM5a4afd0WlBtEQfpFBH2APXgwp2v2mTQ-2SZiLkFgTleN_8WMHxQx6yZnmeKFOcMNRfYGwZnLP5YsjSgRbggoZoQ/s1600/_DSC4874.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXboSSxDfWWJ0V31CGXBquMRt5qi7g_3V3bRzX1y8vChw7OmM5a4afd0WlBtEQfpFBH2APXgwp2v2mTQ-2SZiLkFgTleN_8WMHxQx6yZnmeKFOcMNRfYGwZnLP5YsjSgRbggoZoQ/s400/_DSC4874.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661950752239600434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QPLAYOhS1AzqznkovBAofxW6_gYNPlTGQV7gdOx8Ec-rlbG64pXJQbf2hq6YfW1KKWxj70O0d5QwD-r8_C4GpS6SzJS8Dmex-Od_Hg6TjAhnmQdJpQO27YcapJi0SDR7LWAyAw/s1600/_DSC4872.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QPLAYOhS1AzqznkovBAofxW6_gYNPlTGQV7gdOx8Ec-rlbG64pXJQbf2hq6YfW1KKWxj70O0d5QwD-r8_C4GpS6SzJS8Dmex-Od_Hg6TjAhnmQdJpQO27YcapJi0SDR7LWAyAw/s400/_DSC4872.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661950745354183378" border="0" /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-58702724278794665892011-10-10T05:38:00.000-07:002011-10-19T12:17:04.466-07:00NIROX, South AfricaI arrived here on Thursday 6th at the invitation of Benji Liebmann, to do a residency at his amazing property in the Cradle of Humankind. Richard Long was here earlier in the year and Jem Finer before that. On the first day I went out on a landrover safari into the Cradle with a party of academics from Pretoria University. Here are some of the animals we saw.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Lv9zXUNkzUVCS5xxgqMKNM8TynWXRooFpO0z8motZXoSLRkq0wWc3bVmZlQM0LWTgTzL-GDaQvQ6UNvomam_F509vv6_mOR37YL83IhFrtEVFSX0mMv_61RGHeOq5XdTLK1xqQ/s1600/Impala.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Lv9zXUNkzUVCS5xxgqMKNM8TynWXRooFpO0z8motZXoSLRkq0wWc3bVmZlQM0LWTgTzL-GDaQvQ6UNvomam_F509vv6_mOR37YL83IhFrtEVFSX0mMv_61RGHeOq5XdTLK1xqQ/s400/Impala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661845841269389266" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Impala</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PXLCmooCAm1XpFQ7wkoknTEfOt9PT7noZW0kBSkcl8WxOHFpNxFP8tVsKzdLRElnwKjY9fDxQQUJE-rR9MfZ3lmOQA3vssPIFC65kgVMyyJ6KbWNk4vRrIIAm_CWXQhcQUDKCA/s1600/Kudu3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PXLCmooCAm1XpFQ7wkoknTEfOt9PT7noZW0kBSkcl8WxOHFpNxFP8tVsKzdLRElnwKjY9fDxQQUJE-rR9MfZ3lmOQA3vssPIFC65kgVMyyJ6KbWNk4vRrIIAm_CWXQhcQUDKCA/s400/Kudu3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661845837595617762" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Kudu</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2lAtY3txphZoODiyr3zxwyhACwK_oPszyeleolUXCujm-sJdna_ceRE_qt2aLxInpuJIB82g-s8VGwR3QqpZpbAL-t82KFCA9KHJORtdbMa2bdtqvVdN304rU1CVWALdhsTCw/s1600/Henry+the+Rhino.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2lAtY3txphZoODiyr3zxwyhACwK_oPszyeleolUXCujm-sJdna_ceRE_qt2aLxInpuJIB82g-s8VGwR3QqpZpbAL-t82KFCA9KHJORtdbMa2bdtqvVdN304rU1CVWALdhsTCw/s400/Henry+the+Rhino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661845837540543938" border="0" /></a> Henry, the Rhino<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N4n0fgbf7ZGCJvlaVnD6oixEi1mw14dh81J5r4oARcjh4wgmJxS5AwqDwYV_310eatFEkPp7a39NQoTJneXVKF_pDJFggFaip4H7-v0l9vufm5eigC6gpD8pO_01uhyeZeE8Yw/s1600/Gnu.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N4n0fgbf7ZGCJvlaVnD6oixEi1mw14dh81J5r4oARcjh4wgmJxS5AwqDwYV_310eatFEkPp7a39NQoTJneXVKF_pDJFggFaip4H7-v0l9vufm5eigC6gpD8pO_01uhyeZeE8Yw/s400/Gnu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661845834218638178" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Wildebeest or Gnu</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcfRkvE1HyMF3yqMgDjzffDjsa6ZlslRyl0xVrPYf6NfehC5RsC0UNciTWskYcH3ZZ9WYwaWVSzN4Ms90gD4ZKD_K5DWBxhx04E7oRJp9wPf_N0jZ9XQOd19deZADTKJpp0_Clw/s1600/Academics+on+Safari.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcfRkvE1HyMF3yqMgDjzffDjsa6ZlslRyl0xVrPYf6NfehC5RsC0UNciTWskYcH3ZZ9WYwaWVSzN4Ms90gD4ZKD_K5DWBxhx04E7oRJp9wPf_N0jZ9XQOd19deZADTKJpp0_Clw/s400/Academics+on+Safari.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661845834138491922" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Academics on Safari</span><br /><br />The first animal to appear was Henry the lonely white rhino. Two of his mates were killed by lightning last year and one was shot by poachers who arrived in a helicopter. Apparently the Chinese are now wanting to buy ivory and rhino horn, and have the cash to pay.<br /><br />Nirox is a vast stretch of land owned by several households which are strung out within the forest close to the river. Benji's stretch of land has been landscaped with lakes and doubles as a sculpture park for changing exhibitions. The rest of the land is wild velt. The perimeters are fenced and what used to be farm land is now a private game reserve and most indigenous species of animal have been reintroduced, except the larger carnivores. You can hear Lions roaring in the night but they are in the Lion and Rhino reserve next door! There is accomadion and studio space in an old farmhouse with a cottage next door. I am in the cottage and Jurgen Partenheimer, a minimalist artist working with a South African black poet, is in the main house.<br /><br />On the first evening I was surprised to see a large and very much alive warthog grazing on the lawn behind the sculptures of warthog looking creatures.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziqZQdxYaezQbeLK4SlkXa71yAP7WD-qtNzQe-DhatjoNR37XZtvgk-Togxk6VOigfm4bBkluad0o4wuoSgzI73y6b-QA2mABYIRfMNH774tTfchiq267WXllfepZmqXvckQwaw/s1600/Warthog+behind+the+sculptures.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziqZQdxYaezQbeLK4SlkXa71yAP7WD-qtNzQe-DhatjoNR37XZtvgk-Togxk6VOigfm4bBkluad0o4wuoSgzI73y6b-QA2mABYIRfMNH774tTfchiq267WXllfepZmqXvckQwaw/s400/Warthog+behind+the+sculptures.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661850763478818754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Warthog on the lawn behind the sculptures!</span><br /><br />Whoa! as I write this a collobus monkey has just wandered past the open door!<br /><br />My first morning, early, one of the gardeners, Alpheous takes me on a wander round the grounds and then by golf cart out into the bush. There is game everywhere.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoB9NYJloHY-XJPC327YeV-lDw_IAg4KP1UDwYptIKhAtCNRcB-NL6K_YL7IQsPlzdvj8mk5kAAeAtXftPVCr8Mul_6z9pL4EwRkEGpPPfZZ7tPDk9fnftietZRvaobyUftDVj_g/s1600/Tortoise.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoB9NYJloHY-XJPC327YeV-lDw_IAg4KP1UDwYptIKhAtCNRcB-NL6K_YL7IQsPlzdvj8mk5kAAeAtXftPVCr8Mul_6z9pL4EwRkEGpPPfZZ7tPDk9fnftietZRvaobyUftDVj_g/s400/Tortoise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661854948607252642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Tortoise</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xUzCitbTqHX2sQgPaaDKfn5MFKmaywo43IOzlzYixo_0AJNG9bCoIjnsqoycUJY5sSeY54zz6PlWdWEsgQaMj0x6xClrfbEDstH8PRD1hDYxjLm673ZtbCg3qysU8c5poHiMYQ/s1600/Zebra.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xUzCitbTqHX2sQgPaaDKfn5MFKmaywo43IOzlzYixo_0AJNG9bCoIjnsqoycUJY5sSeY54zz6PlWdWEsgQaMj0x6xClrfbEDstH8PRD1hDYxjLm673ZtbCg3qysU8c5poHiMYQ/s400/Zebra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661854940526702930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Zebra</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAyfy5db9GMhnnj5g_2c49Huut2-h3YwFZkC4BaQ4DTuxaU1oK__CioV3XVp05vZ5Jnd5c7FlPJtD6IQgYL_M_I7gncFLcu4Qgyza6KjU8OHTQrv4MdiKDPBqAKRnnTrgzfZjTw/s1600/Oryx.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAyfy5db9GMhnnj5g_2c49Huut2-h3YwFZkC4BaQ4DTuxaU1oK__CioV3XVp05vZ5Jnd5c7FlPJtD6IQgYL_M_I7gncFLcu4Qgyza6KjU8OHTQrv4MdiKDPBqAKRnnTrgzfZjTw/s400/Oryx.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661854937506765842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Oryx</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAwRykqrzbcVsb-phspbw9OsITE2CjNuCTVGdKr4IyF10_zJebbF2hiizyXmjBBYB9x7ZwsFifjeD20nm-CdtwCn9VPP_yEqbIBuIMg8XJEWp_DoIt_RXuduj1hAB66PZXkUeh9A/s1600/Kudu.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAwRykqrzbcVsb-phspbw9OsITE2CjNuCTVGdKr4IyF10_zJebbF2hiizyXmjBBYB9x7ZwsFifjeD20nm-CdtwCn9VPP_yEqbIBuIMg8XJEWp_DoIt_RXuduj1hAB66PZXkUeh9A/s400/Kudu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661854931738557826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">male hartebeest</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pKV7imSjnTWlesXX8qht3wxnyu8hBSowzEqXok13WDODiOVwnjX8quyfdkxJ5ATY-teXegbIVNNXRmIaE3CGUBI7Fla1x-k8uN3C7bvlDtguEjO3zkoqfardAiHTcCI7oGlPUQ/s1600/Female+Kudu.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pKV7imSjnTWlesXX8qht3wxnyu8hBSowzEqXok13WDODiOVwnjX8quyfdkxJ5ATY-teXegbIVNNXRmIaE3CGUBI7Fla1x-k8uN3C7bvlDtguEjO3zkoqfardAiHTcCI7oGlPUQ/s400/Female+Kudu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661854935541977922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">female hartebeest</span><br /><br />Then we head up one of the furthest hills. There is a terrible smell of burning and the cart conks out. So Alpheus calls for help, meanwhile I walk the rest of the way up the hill and there is what must be the Richard Long!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqrixRYjssSCHtv7f4uHGwC79OofSJL7nfiJw3j-3J_NjBBKvsKrOVxSjukQnyTtRvA6nXLDEm_bQYdbe7-V9t6npbRCM53Hrqn4zCkYr1jJMB8q6b2zsxsryXQDVCzh0n2RgCA/s1600/Rihard+Long.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqrixRYjssSCHtv7f4uHGwC79OofSJL7nfiJw3j-3J_NjBBKvsKrOVxSjukQnyTtRvA6nXLDEm_bQYdbe7-V9t6npbRCM53Hrqn4zCkYr1jJMB8q6b2zsxsryXQDVCzh0n2RgCA/s400/Rihard+Long.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661857041702781042" border="0" /></a>Close by is a very poisonous plant. Don't even think of touching it. The San used to poke there arrow heads into this plant and it is the poison which would have done for the animal.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5pwM37YuHvl1nGV_vNCIfe7xyGUPpfh1txciEztId6hVUrFfujGeTqIjw3RmpE4ARr36WjDRKr3pprGQ62uX68-NsLBL9JCEGJoW8t8mWsgvrqbuyJiNnYGHjpURv-rFeRXyPA/s1600/Very+poisonous+plant.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5pwM37YuHvl1nGV_vNCIfe7xyGUPpfh1txciEztId6hVUrFfujGeTqIjw3RmpE4ARr36WjDRKr3pprGQ62uX68-NsLBL9JCEGJoW8t8mWsgvrqbuyJiNnYGHjpURv-rFeRXyPA/s400/Very+poisonous+plant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661857042538069698" border="0" /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-48391498661939167362011-09-19T02:11:00.000-07:002011-09-19T02:23:41.069-07:00Thixendale udateIf anyone notices a few gaps appearing in my work at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Thixendale</span> it is because a rights of way officer, who the council failed to consult during the planning application, has insisted that we do this.<br />While it is important that all rights of way be preserved, this work was commissioned to encourage walkers to use and visit the Wolds way and to enhance that enjoyment. To this end we put a huge amount of thought and physical effort into the work, complied with all the regulations, went through planning and worked with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">archaeologists</span>, and consulted with local people. The work does not obstruct any right of way. If you are fit enough to walk even part of this trail, then you are fit enough to walk over a 60 cm high hump or detour 10 metres. This is pure <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">bureaucratic</span> pettiness, to the cost of the aesthetic line of a work of art.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-53100470322394333012011-09-13T02:27:00.000-07:002011-09-13T04:47:37.416-07:00Carbon Sink, A continuing saga<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu1XXdLjMSuqLISfp_p6yj6fb47iEJcO318Nrvzi3Zx_bE4Larv1coqrWD7zf-q87PKXrvvIexvI010HO7Ae7Mf6WYKIja9GrbTpVyfldcng9LkruDGf85OamNhJIQ8NIaCrWeQ/s1600/_DSC4499%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu1XXdLjMSuqLISfp_p6yj6fb47iEJcO318Nrvzi3Zx_bE4Larv1coqrWD7zf-q87PKXrvvIexvI010HO7Ae7Mf6WYKIja9GrbTpVyfldcng9LkruDGf85OamNhJIQ8NIaCrWeQ/s400/_DSC4499%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651799433869946482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >Carbon Sink,</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >University of Wyoming, Laramie</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br />The students are now back on Campus and people continue to visit the work which is bedding in well. There are still comments in the press, which means it is generating its own conversation as Tom Lubnau points out in his comment in the Gillette News Record. Here is a copy:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Trying to make silk purses from sows</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">A few weeks ago, the University of Wyoming unveiled a new on-campus sculpture entitled “Carbon Sink.”<br />The artist,Chris Drury, is a worldfamous sculptor, the university paid $40,000 to install the sculpture on campus. The artist designed the sculpture as a series of dead logs arranged in a spiral pattern, which he hoped would symbolize the death of forests from pine beetles due to global warming.<br /><br />Much has been written by journalists, bloggers and in some tersely worded emails about the comments Reps. Gregg Blikre, Norine Kasperik and I made about the hypocrisy of accepting dollars derived from carbon fuels to put up an anti-carbon sculpture. People, mostly from California and New York told we told us we should be “ashamed of ourselves” and that we are “ignorant bumpkins because we hate anything that resembles culture” and referred to us as “cow flops and road apples.”<br /><br />It is important to understand what we didn’t do. We didn’t ask the sculpture be taken down. We didn’t take any steps to remove funding from the university. And we didn’t engage in any form of censorship.<br />What did we do? We defended our friends and neighbors. Prompted by the existence of the piece of art, we started a discussion. My old art teachers, from back in the day, told me that art was supposed to provoke discussion, to inspire and to affect the viewer.<br /><br />And that is what we did. We used the existence of the art as an inspiration piece to let folks know that between 60 and 80 percent of the state’s budget is dependent on extractive industries.<br />We asked for some appreciation and kudos for the hard-working folks in the energy industry, who go to work day after day, meeting America’s energy needs and funding in large measure the University of Wyoming budget.<br />We told the university that we thought it was out of touch with the rest of the state, and that we wished they would spend as much time working with us to meet our educational needs as they did being critical of the industries that pay the bills in Wyoming.<br /><br />And to their credit, the administration of the University of Wyoming listened. We engaged in a dialogue about the misunderstandings, misperceptions and missed opportunities that exist between the University of Wyoming and Campbell County.<br />University President Dr. Tom Buchanan, Trustees Warren Lauer and Jim Neiman, and senior UW staffers Don Richards and Mike Massie took time out of their busy schedules to travel to Gillette, to tour a power plant, the college and other community facilities, and to meet with community leaders and energy company officials to discuss opportunities for UW to offer educational services in the Campbell County area.<br />The discussions were positive. Dr. Buchanan left the citizens of Campbell County with a clear challenge. If we can define a specific set of needs that can be met by the university rather than a vague list of complaints, the university will work to meet those needs.<br />The monkey is now on the backs of the citizens of Campbell County. We have a great opportunity to advance the education opportunities and the quality of life in northeastern Wyoming if we are wise, and if we can specifically define our needs and put a plan in place to accomplish those needs.<br /><br />Thanks to Chris Drury for your sculpture. While I don’t agree with your science, or what you believe your sculpture symbolizes, the burnt logs laying in a circular pattern on the grounds of the University of Wyoming were a catalyst to open discussions on a greater UW presence in Campbell County. Art prompted discussion. If we accept the challenge, discussion will lead to better education and an enhanced quality of life.<br /><br />Rep. Tom Lubnau represents Campbell County. Rep. Gregg Blikre and Rep. Norine Kasperik of Campbell County also joined with him in signing this opinion piece.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I have to say that I am very pleased that the dialogue around this work has got the university and the people of Campbell County in a dialogue about what they all want from an education. For my part I am a little concerned that there is a pinch of climate change denial going on here.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The science is not mine, global warming is a phenomenon, agreed internationally by all leading scientists who are not in the pay of energy companies and they are based on incontrovertible facts. You can dispute what these facts might mean in terms of degree and speed of warming and you can dispute what you are going to do about them, particularly if it effects your industry, but it would be dangerous to continue to deny the facts. If Universities are to teach science then that teaching has to be empirical and not based on convenient belief systems. Belief has nothing to do with it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">For myself the work never symbolized anything. When you put two materials together in a particular form, then you make a connection. The form is a vortex, whirlpool or whirlwind. I guess you could say that with Catrina and Irene that is an apt metaphor. I used beetle killed pine and coal. Both originate from living trees, which were killed by climate change; the coal from natural warming and the more recent trees from human induced warming.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Anyone who switches on a light, uses a steel tool, drives a car, wears clothes etc, will have benefited from the burning of coal. That must be most people on the planet and we have all been pretty grateful for that. We can find technologies to burn coal in a cleaner way and this is a job for scientists and engineers, but burning all fossil fuels produces CO2 which is the direct cause of a warming planet. Trees breath in CO2 and give us back oxygen. If the trees are dying we are in trouble, not just for the oxygen, but for biodiversity too. Our children and grandchildren we never know of, or experience wild mountain forests.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">We burn too much, our carbon footprint is way too big. The question is how can we lead sustainable lives with enough for all without, destroying this beautiful land on which all life depends? That is a good question to ask of future university students the world over.</span><br /></span></span></span>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-14030308455626843382011-08-31T03:09:00.000-07:002011-08-31T04:02:08.658-07:00ThixendaleIt is now a month since I returned from Wyoming and posted a blog.
<br />At the beginning of August my show <span style="font-style: italic;">Land, Water and Language </span><span style="font-size:100%;">was installed at Dovecot in Edinburgh. It is a really beautiful space and this is how the work looked:
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtc_vAmeODfZigYACu5JjcIyRI9P30Y9dJZxNCU9229sokDoN80rP-OiiaOw6RHhDi5upWu6dNVLUj66SwTrjRabFL2kjSKrFBWGwa21dlbeF7LwOSdw22i2nyCQqspgsItM0j7w/s1600/IMG_1136.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtc_vAmeODfZigYACu5JjcIyRI9P30Y9dJZxNCU9229sokDoN80rP-OiiaOw6RHhDi5upWu6dNVLUj66SwTrjRabFL2kjSKrFBWGwa21dlbeF7LwOSdw22i2nyCQqspgsItM0j7w/s400/IMG_1136.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646961778084663826" border="0" /></a>From 3 days at the Edinburgh Festival we drove down to Thixendale in the Yorkshire Wolds where I was due to start construction of a work in this stunning chalk valley. The commission was for The Yorkshire Wolds Way and I first saw this valley in November last year. My reaction to the valley was that this was the sculpture and anything added would have to be very subtle.The site was at the confluence of two glacial valleys and I noticed that a curve had been carved out of the far bank where the meeting of two glaciers would have formed a vortex before flowing on down.
<br />My plan was therefore to draw these lines of ancient flow in gentle grassed mounds. In the smaller of the two valleys was a small disused dew pond which I wanted to restore and incorporate. Here are the first drawings and plans:
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<br />Work was delayed until late summer as we needed planning permission and a magnetic resonance survey for archeological disturbances. I spent 3 days stringing out the site into a grid of 10 m. squares. Then made the drawing in lime and water lines.
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDbA3uPKqlMNd6ZhPgzfIZrXLnpXwggvnKUYdoVR5CVDnEMEnT1sGl1mr4sygTvoGiuor__gn6ZUYzthiTGDZ0cFWvzObSBz6HOukrXZke83GktOO-hSeboVmWYt7quWbs5hD8A/s1600/IMG_1149.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisDbA3uPKqlMNd6ZhPgzfIZrXLnpXwggvnKUYdoVR5CVDnEMEnT1sGl1mr4sygTvoGiuor__gn6ZUYzthiTGDZ0cFWvzObSBz6HOukrXZke83GktOO-hSeboVmWYt7quWbs5hD8A/s400/IMG_1149.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646966009007454338" border="0" /></a>The work was being carried out for me by Clive and Leslie from Country Plan and they had already completed the dew pond, using the traditional means of a thick layer of clay, covered in a layer of straw then stones to prevent cattle from puncturing the clay liner.
<br />On the Monday Mike Dee arrived - the best digger driver in Yorkshire. He came with machine and his dog Alfie, who proceeded to bark at all passers by and generally get in the way - much to the amusement of us all. Also present were Louise and Dominic, the local archeologists, employed to check out anything we dug up. In the end this amounted to a few fragments of medieval pottery and a sheep's bone!
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<br />So we started in the middle and worked outwards, Mike digging and me raking by hand. Mike was an artist with the digger and made the most beautiful job. His bucket was 40 cm. deep which was as deep as the trench. What came out went on the mound. He started by removing the turf on the ditch, then scooped out the rest. It took about 4 days in all.
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<br /></span>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-6150829545202609022011-07-28T08:16:00.000-07:002011-07-28T09:06:55.369-07:00The Sucker Done dried up itself<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Stuff still proliferating on the blogoshere about Carbon Sink. The faculty member who made the initial remark to me back in November about no one making the connection between dying forests and coal being shipped out of the state on a daily basis has this to say about it:<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ></span> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"I must also say, as I'm sure many already have, that it was absolutely delightful, energizing, and thrilling to discover that the arts have such subversive political potential that an installation can threaten the socioeconomic hegemony of the energy industry in Wyoming."</span></p><p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Meanwhile we came across this strange thing on Lake Hattie out in Big Hollow.</span><br /></span></p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7JENliejw0QgZLhGZdafRi3YUxzeTPXEIQkHCFB9t3WjaE0dg7AaQaEzi5MFcycTnpMJZY38Xe32ZV9LC5GeCrzhwDXNKeSe7n0pYnJsc4XfQ6wATLVQzT7Ax_6yDxOVIUFwJA/s1600/IMG_1032.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7JENliejw0QgZLhGZdafRi3YUxzeTPXEIQkHCFB9t3WjaE0dg7AaQaEzi5MFcycTnpMJZY38Xe32ZV9LC5GeCrzhwDXNKeSe7n0pYnJsc4XfQ6wATLVQzT7Ax_6yDxOVIUFwJA/s400/IMG_1032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634427445683876482" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >This is what a local Geologist has to say about it:<br /><br /></span><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"> <div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">"Yup, them thangs is concretions. But they ain't made outa concrete! Nope, most probable they's from calcium carbonate concentrated in the mud on the bottom of the late Cretaceous ocean. But where's that ocean at? Damned if I know, maybe the sucker done dri</span>ed itself up!<br /></span><br /></div></span>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-39927745178653167192011-07-26T13:56:00.000-07:002011-07-26T14:54:56.699-07:00Carbon StinkIt appears that some legislators, who are strongly influenced by the Energy companies, who fund the university through their taxes paid to the state, are serious about cutting funding to the University of Wyoming. This really does smack of 1984 and Big Brother. Art and education are both poor and powerless and easy to whack on the head. But both art and education are about the power of communicating - knowledge, ideas, understanding. It is how we survive as a species we pass on wisdom down to the next generation who we hope will find better solutions than we have.<br /><br />We are at a turning point here. There are protests going on throughout the world about building yet more coal fired power stations. The majority of our electric power comes from the burning of coal which is on the way to raising mean temperatures on the planet 2 degrees. This is, in itself unsustainable and puts all life at risk. But at the rate we are going temperatures will rise beyond this and the process of heating will <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">accelerate</span>: Floods, heatwaves, drought, famine, tornadoes, dying forests, loss of biodiversity etc etc. We can see it all happening now.<br /><br />There are two things that need to happen;<br />1) More research into clean energy production and more (not less) funding for universities to do this research.<br />2) An ongoing debate on how we can give the people of the world the basics for a decent life, and<br /> how we can consume less and take the strain off the biosphere. This is a conversation<br /> that needs to happen at all levels of education and it needs to happen now.<br /><br />No one is suggesting that we stop burning coal. That is not going to happen or the world as we know it, will grind to a halt. But we do need to find alternative clean energy solutions and fast.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-82108556824447887982011-07-25T19:47:00.000-07:002011-07-25T20:26:02.149-07:00Horses, Steers, Bulls, Cowboys 'n thingsTrees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Whether you are an energy producer, a legislator, or a tree hugging liberal, everyone needs to breathe. While the blogosphere is alive with invective, Wyoming remains not just a place of mineral extraction, but wide open spaces, expansive skies, wildlife, cattle, horses, cowboys and the original first Americans.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVVy50EDqPpP2fD68LDttfdBGdeWF0eXXoWVGwEo6IJwdh8NrQAGyNcGvAGk36DDMHQZJxHkw73GzcWUM2hm2PsUycLpQH35NhEtV6pUqoViF-TJ1klRE7w5-aCCeTNjrwt5cDQ/s1600/_DSC4580.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVVy50EDqPpP2fD68LDttfdBGdeWF0eXXoWVGwEo6IJwdh8NrQAGyNcGvAGk36DDMHQZJxHkw73GzcWUM2hm2PsUycLpQH35NhEtV6pUqoViF-TJ1klRE7w5-aCCeTNjrwt5cDQ/s400/_DSC4580.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633495044505340674" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BzX80vq0w4RKuV8SI5hyphenhyphenqItC6iKt-OYmMCDK5YkFp3uAogETTd4cuW74sebY11zY86Wng4LeFPBVE81on3bT1XXQMs8Y6OHEzZOsYo5DHaO4zm7Hj8dqEeMv_tge1UoiQ6dnqA/s1600/_DSC4581.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1BzX80vq0w4RKuV8SI5hyphenhyphenqItC6iKt-OYmMCDK5YkFp3uAogETTd4cuW74sebY11zY86Wng4LeFPBVE81on3bT1XXQMs8Y6OHEzZOsYo5DHaO4zm7Hj8dqEeMv_tge1UoiQ6dnqA/s400/_DSC4581.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633492020908355826" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimt0IK-gCl7DTDCflnuSwKYK40ZCzwlee7z42MDGhODK0g0hDhIuW0BnKlPZ5sCRKMJSVQ-VdVvYEYWP6nBf_eUMn_p7nWPEILfslkJlUJKg1YbVEMqxjTPFNWMPc2rZhQMAWp0w/s1600/_DSC4582.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimt0IK-gCl7DTDCflnuSwKYK40ZCzwlee7z42MDGhODK0g0hDhIuW0BnKlPZ5sCRKMJSVQ-VdVvYEYWP6nBf_eUMn_p7nWPEILfslkJlUJKg1YbVEMqxjTPFNWMPc2rZhQMAWp0w/s400/_DSC4582.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633492012118875138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtP_5ZwJ-a-OClz2ToRmtNA16IiDJKKTDxOky74xe5NC7zxJ-35nZJnclt8f3bILJkN-HD3quaHdlgMMh89ztPJAVGhXTb4CPSys7as0u6SStilBTbhoz-BR70u1-3KN-npg8jQ/s1600/_DSC4583.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtP_5ZwJ-a-OClz2ToRmtNA16IiDJKKTDxOky74xe5NC7zxJ-35nZJnclt8f3bILJkN-HD3quaHdlgMMh89ztPJAVGhXTb4CPSys7as0u6SStilBTbhoz-BR70u1-3KN-npg8jQ/s400/_DSC4583.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633492006130059202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzIPDOcb90hXu1JEJSExRkPxWm2UDKKMg0YoDRYEOR42EUT9TX07CEppbzC0OUr6DA1PuJE2A91KUiWz137lW-rWcUMXDgz36J93m8Aj_WUD3O0zTQmWOuUGdPAucJUjEx4LnBQ/s1600/_DSC4584.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzIPDOcb90hXu1JEJSExRkPxWm2UDKKMg0YoDRYEOR42EUT9TX07CEppbzC0OUr6DA1PuJE2A91KUiWz137lW-rWcUMXDgz36J93m8Aj_WUD3O0zTQmWOuUGdPAucJUjEx4LnBQ/s400/_DSC4584.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633491995973207090" border="0" /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-57029798814722839202011-07-22T22:17:00.000-07:002011-07-22T22:30:07.825-07:00University sculpture upsets Wyoming coal industry<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >So now the row has gone global. Here is the article by Suzanne Goldenberg for the Saturday Guardian on July 23rd<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >The sculpture</span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" > was always going to be hard to ignore – a giant 36-foot whorl of silvery logs and lumps of black coal</span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" > in front of the main campus building at the University of Wyoming</span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >But British artist Chris Drury</span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" > thought his commentary on the connection between the coal industry and dead trees would merely generate some polite on-campus debate in Cheyenne.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >Not anymore. Drury's work, </span>Carbon Sink What Goes Around Comes Around<span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >, sits in the heart of coal country, Wyoming, which mines more coal than any other state in America.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >The work's existence and the links it draws between coal, climate change, and the pine beetle infestation that is devastating the landscape of the Rocky Mountains, has set off a debate about artistic and academic freedom, with the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/mining"><span style=";font-family:Times;color:blue;" ></span></a></span>mining<span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" > industry and Republican state legislators expressing outrage that a university that got money from coal would dare to turn on it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >"I thought it was a fairly innocuous thing to do," said Drury . "But it's kind of upset a lot of people here. Perhaps it was slightly more obvious because it is slightly more crucial in this state. But this is a university so I expected to start a debate, not a row."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >He said he got the idea from a conversation with a scientist who complained that nobody was drawing the connection between the daily coal shipments from Wyoming, and the pine beetle infestation that was killing the region's forests.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >The beetles are endemic to the Rockies but with climate change the region no longer gets the plunging temperatures that used to kill them off. Milder winters have allowed the beetles to live on and eat their way through the Rockies, stripping the bark off lodgepole pines from Colorado to British Columbia.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >Some of the logs used in the installation were still crawling with beetles.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >But </span><a href="http://chrisdrury.blogspot.com/2011/07/coal-themed-sculpture-annoys-lawmakers.html"></a>as Drury charts on his<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://chrisdrury.blogspot.com/2011/07/coal-themed-sculpture-annoys-lawmakers.html"><span style=";font-family:Times;color:blue;" > blog</span></a></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >, his comment on the connections between that calamity and coal was too close to home. By day three of construction, the mining industry was accusing the university of ingratitude towards one of its main benefactors – in what some have seen as a veiled threat to cut funding.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >"They get millions of dollars in royalties from oil, gas and coal to run the university, and then they put up a monument attacking me, demonising the industry," Marion Loomis, the director of the Wyoming Mining Association,</span> told the<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_82943c8e-c869-5ffd-9874-8730df510368.html#ixzz1S1tgmtnJ"><span style=";font-family:Times;color:blue;" > Casper Star-Tribune</span></a></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >. "I understand academic freedom, and we're very supportive of it, but it's still disappointing."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >Then two Republican members of the Wyoming state legislature joined in, calling the work an insult to coal. The subject of university funding also came up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >"While I would never tinker with the University of Wyoming budget – I'm a great supporter of the University of Wyoming – every now and then, you have to use these opportunities to educate some of the folks at the University of Wyoming about where their paychecks come from," Tom Lubnau, one of the state legislators, </span>told the <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/stories/Criticism-of-Carbon-Sink-art-at-UW-generates-heat,59941?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=Tom+Lubnau&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=stories&town_id="><span style=";font-family:Times;color:blue;" >Gillette News-Record</span></a></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:100%;" >The university said it was standing by Drury's work, although it was not necessarily endorsing his message.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-67670598101941964032011-07-21T20:07:00.001-07:002011-07-22T07:24:32.997-07:00Believe it or not the Dinosaurs eventually died out<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgdQnaglIHVGAX5LOqiu_34FBQEkdAOh-lejymg2OvwFFZ3CRlySGkD8Ert34DhXfayuEZG87boB2Td6yjZYTMVAQjLiEn7xz5S2shWw07YXDd8PMWjarnVDBBMR_VGs4N4c-Xw/s1600/IMG_1027.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgdQnaglIHVGAX5LOqiu_34FBQEkdAOh-lejymg2OvwFFZ3CRlySGkD8Ert34DhXfayuEZG87boB2Td6yjZYTMVAQjLiEn7xz5S2shWw07YXDd8PMWjarnVDBBMR_VGs4N4c-Xw/s400/IMG_1027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632008277235399666" border="0" /></a>Dinosaur museum, made from dinosaur bones, Near Medicine Bow, WyomingChris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-73569099298271363392011-07-21T19:10:00.000-07:002011-07-21T19:41:37.152-07:00Coal-Themed Sculpture Annoys Lawmakers<p>Today Jim Robbins ran this article in the New York Times Green Blog:</p><p>http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/coal-themed-sculpture-annoys-lawmakers/</p><p>And tomorrow it may well go global as the Guardian have asked to interview me. If the energy companies hadn't made such a fuss about an overblown headline in the Casper Star Tribune all this would have been small beer. As it is they are now making veiled threats to The University of Wyoming about who they should and should not employ and what art should or should not be on campus. Isn't there something in the constitution here about freedom of speech - particularly applicable in a University, I would have thought. All this has been rightly stressed by the UW president. Art is free to speak its truth, and in the case of <span style="font-style: italic;">Carbon Sink</span> all I am trying to do is to make many and multiple complex connections in as striking and beautiful way as I am able.<br /></p><p>Rupert Murdoch, because of his economic and media power, has for years shackled UK politicians with veiled threats of electoral defeat, only to 'come a cropper' himself - custard pied in fact. The only thing that will work here if forests are to be saved and a repeat of what happened to New Orleans be avoided, is a proper and open debate about how we produce and use energy in a semblance of sustainability.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is Jim Robbins article.<br /></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Some people in Wyoming, one of the country’s top energy-producing states, are not happy with a sculpture that has just been installed at the University of Wyoming that depicts a link between human-caused climate change and dead forests.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The installation, by the British artist Chris Drury, is called “Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around.” It is 36 feet in diameter, and at its center, it features logs from trees killed by beetles, surrounded by lumps of coal. Forests have been dying in large numbers across the West, and scientists say it is because the climate has warmed, reducing the frequency of the well-below-zero temperatures that kill insects that attack pine trees. Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are a big reason things have gotten warmer, they say. Foremost among them is the burning of coal.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The sculpture and its message do not sit well with two state legislators from Campbell County, Wyoming, home to some of the largest coal mines in the country. In a letter to the University of Wyoming, Representatives Tom Lubnau and Gregg Blikre, both Republicans from Gillette, the energy capital of the Cowboy State, protested the installation of the sculpture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">“While I would never tinker with the University of Wyoming budget – I’m a great supporter of the University of Wyoming – every now and then you have to use these opportunities to educate some of the folks at the University of Wyoming about where their paychecks come from,” Representative Lubnau <a href="http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_7bba7f8f-37a5-5945-ab0a-2758b3eed86f.html">told a local newspaper</a>, referring to taxes collected from coal and other energy industries. He did not return phone calls seeking comment.<br /><span id="more-108499"></span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><br /> Museum representatives say they support the expression of their artists. “There are no plans to uninstall it,” said Susan Moldenhauer, director of the <a href="http://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum/">University of Wyoming Art Museum</a>. “Chris Drury makes connections within nature. He’s not a political artist in any way.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Mr. Drury said he understood that the world needs energy but that he also grasped that humans are doing damage to meet that need. His work seeks in part to connect these two ideas. An article that appeared about his sculpture in The Casper Star Tribune made that point, he said. But the headline – “U.W. Sculpture Blasts Fossil Fuels” – was a misrepresentation, Mr. Drury said, and angered some people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">“I’m sympathetic that we all use fossil fuels,” he said. “But whole forests are dying in the Rockies, and it’s happening everywhere.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">“I’m not trying to shove it down everyone’s throat, but I hope people will have a conversation” because of the sculpture, he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">The work, which cost about $45,000 and was financed by an anonymous donor and with money from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, is intended to return to nature through decay and will probably be gone in 5 to 20 years, Mr. Drury said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Representatives Lubnau and Blikre have suggested that a sculpture of energy workers be built on campus.</span></p>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-22716940453501882232011-07-20T17:07:00.000-07:002011-07-20T17:17:23.437-07:00Carbon Sink, University of Wyoming<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1i_lRngP_h2K4rsfFscVdJpCvEPGJUwLrZReq0ng_EeHlha1jvhXErfrtKUBtoky_N1eIIObOmGimKQWHTL7mGhoQ2onDMnCQQEZ3-Sx4k8eKZJ3E0z7A_ArJaHbiloeaJuwhQ/s1600/_DSC4478%2528S%2529.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKWCy1rS34gdgFjL4gAjQzpp3nZgs-i-w9iQ2c7SLeqd4lkDOdezUcxWm1ORMepAjwsT5tn6GUa29LXD6P8KqhHPbfAEMQ56L6WSAsnRKlpbyAQDOxqdgHSm3QVxwJbWEMaPTug/s400/_DSC4526%2528S%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631591954161493682" border="0" /></a>Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37017397.post-87510317692773944132011-07-19T19:37:00.001-07:002011-07-19T19:48:25.065-07:00Day 7 Carbon SinkWe are done.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrsQY0gAdue3hceCgF-daitTM0tLXaqOVqytZxeJx1vWDx6KzZ1OTcVvPNCb9qc6Wb9zcksHU9j5Ismjm5DlSS9_UoUBg19iJAdaPXPlvIbenzLdIPTxrFG4266QvlFDLR8rtQ/s1600/IMG_1020.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrsQY0gAdue3hceCgF-daitTM0tLXaqOVqytZxeJx1vWDx6KzZ1OTcVvPNCb9qc6Wb9zcksHU9j5Ismjm5DlSS9_UoUBg19iJAdaPXPlvIbenzLdIPTxrFG4266QvlFDLR8rtQ/s400/IMG_1020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631258282260331650" border="0" /></a>Sadly however the controversy is if anything heating up. I would call it petty politics and I haven't read anymore, but The Gillette News Record ran an article in the same vein, which spread to Montana and legislators are asking questions. The President of UW was interviewed on radio and said something like Art should be free to say what it likes - again I am going on hearsay.<br />However people in favour of what this work might imply are coming out of the woodwork and Jim Robbins will have an article in the New York Times on Thursday, which I think will be a voice for the forests. Others too want to talk about the art, so watch his space. As for me, I am very happy with the work.Chris Druryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12920592019667659464noreply@blogger.com1