24 LOGS

Installation, mixed media, 1995

24 Logs represents the passage of twenty-four hours in a day. This work engages transformation and time, expressing ideas relevant to eutrophication: the process where excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, caused by the runoff of nutrients from land including fertilizers and sewage, creates an extremely dense growth of plant life.

I collected the logs depicted in this work from lakes in the Adirondacks in northern New York. I photographed and scanned the logs, eventually creating photo-etched zinc printing plates. Instead of printing on paper, I used the plates themselves as objects in installation. For the wall installation depicted, I adhered images/prints of logs to 24 pieces roofing slate.