Susan Schuppli's work explores materials as media, that is, as recorders, storing and revealing information. This is what the dust that I've been collecting and holding in gum arabic is doing - the dust records its contents, some of its processes of arrival in the form I gathered it (and made it static, or captured, in gum arabic, like aspec or resin) and could be 'decoded' (as individual components with specific provenance) identified with the right scientific devices. There are ways that this is being conducted with marine micro-plastics.
This feels like a progression in work, connecting two lines of working - the dust slides and mud from the rhynes. I think about sediment - in water, as sedimentation as a process of thinking and thought, and how earth and ice sections as core samples are made and read. Depth is time.
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