Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1502021850490.8347@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Snowcut Geology
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:52:32 -0500 (EST)
Snowcut Geology http://www.alansondheim.org/geology2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology8.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/geology9.jpg I'm fascinated by mineral appearances; we have labradorite here, perhaps my favorite*; then there is ice itself and its odd crystalline forms which include snow; here the landscape is transformed into a dialog between anthropocene intentionality and the oldest proclivity of the world: So then I have gone out among these new formations that appeared, almost miraculously, almost overnight; here are some early and preliminary images of structures and fossils worth considering, before the usual processes of erosion occur, and all has disappeared. *also muscovite and of course azurite