“For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant:
millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years.
Deep time is kept by rock, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the
drift of tectonic plates.’
The process of making the work reflects the way the earth and rocks
were formed in a long and slow process. From various positive and negative moulds, we applied more than 500 layers of coloured plaster
vertically. This process of many layers and the method of application
ensures that there is a natural build-up of layers. After applying all the
layers, the work was sanded smooth and polished to create a stony
surface that initially looks like a painting but is not completely flat and
when touched looks like a slab of stone, perhaps sawn right out of a
quarry, shaped by the earth and the forces of the universe itself.
This work is a depiction of a green algae cell. Chlamydomanas reinhardtii is a unicellular flagellate used as a model system in molecular genetics work and flagellar motility studies.