We have often worked through ideas surrounding human presence in landscape. With this project, we would like to focus on geological elements and human interaction in imagined landscapes.
Subduction occurs when two tectonic plates collide at a convergent boundary and one plate is driven beneath the other, back into the Earth’s interior. While the Earth’s tectonic plates are constantly on the move, we usually do not feel the slippage. There are no discerning movements to alert us to anything out of the ordinary while the geological world rearranges itself under our feet. We remain largely unaware of its movement, until a more radical shift occurs.
When we look around landscapes, we can sometimes see mostly uninterrupted spreads of coastlines. In other locations, what was spewed out from leaks in the Earth’s core, has been re-arranged, sometimes layers are re-folded. At other times the process has enveloped or revealed the prints of animals and plants long lost to the surfaces we now occupy. Sometimes we are treated to specific samples of minerals, the re-frozen, molten rock of volcanos, or surfaces adjusted through earthquake action. Overall, we can only imagine how to piece together what things looked like before any humans walked the Earth. In Subduction, we want to imagine time bridges connecting our moving world. These bridges will fuse local and global to reimagine new environments.