LAY OF THE LAND

This piece took the form of a cross-section of the earth and was also meant to be reminiscent of an English garden maze. It consisted of (from the center out): a reflecting pool of water mixed with salt and black pigment, newspapers, tin cans, glass bottles, plastic containers and coal. The recyclables (five twenty cubic yard dumpsters worth) were donated by the local sanitation service. The center pool evaporated and the salt in it crystalized over he course of the show. The materials in the center section were layered like sedimentary rock yet alluded to the landfill that the city of Richmond was built on.

The Lay of the Land, 1991, wood, recyclables, coal, salt and water, 2' high x 40' diameter.