View fullsize Coal moving technology, Svalbard. Wooden braced form. 19” x 13”. Coal mine tailings, anthracite powder, acrylic, stencil, on paper. #seeingcoal #decarbonization
View fullsize Svalbard Braced Form. Coal moving technology. 13x19. Powdered anthracite and acrylic medium, stencil, on paper. #decarbonization #seeingcoal #extractionpa #arcticcircle
View fullsize Real Big Spill, 19” x 13”. Coal mine tailings, acrylic, stencil. The coal mine tailings from upstate PA have a warm tone, especially next to the carbon black ink. #extractionpa #sootselfie
View fullsize I saw this with my own two eyes. What is real, anyway?
View fullsize More oil. Fossil carbon is the link between coal, oil, and methane gas. #decarbonization #extractionpa
View fullsize King of the hill’s. Based on a John Mather photograph ca 1860, Titusville, PA, wherein the small sign reads as written. Though “King of the spills” would be more apt. Mather’s documentation of the ecological devastation during
View fullsize Transmission 19x13 anthracite, tailings, acrylic. #seeingcoal #extractionpa #decarbonization
View fullsize Nature’s own Vanta Black. The more I work with soot the more fascinating it becomes. Just like its carbon sister anthracite, soot exhibits material behaviors that can only reflect the invisible nano-carbon structures that compose them. Graphen
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View fullsize Energy avatars. 19” x 13”. Soot, anthracite mine tailings, acrylic medium, stencil, relief print. Edition of 3. #decarbonization #seeingcoal #extractionpa In these new works I am thinking about Pennsylvania’s fossil fuel history th
View fullsize Detail, soot work in progress.
View fullsize Soot. Energy avatar. Soot, mine tailings, acrylic. 19” x 13” #decarbonization #seeingcoal #extractionpa
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View fullsize What undergirds our seen reality? Art makes energy technology systems visible. Electricity transmission on a field of anthracite. #decarbonization #seeing coal #extractionpa
View fullsize Experimenting with mine tailings from Blaschak Anthracite. Anthracite powder, mine tailings, acrylic medium, stencil, 19” x 13” #decarbonization #seeingcoal #extractionpa
View fullsize Braced form with light. #decarbonization #seeingcoal #extractionpa
View fullsize Brace-Becher #decarbonization #seeingcoal some work on making coal visible.