IAN VAN COLLER – NATURALISTS OF THE LONG NOW
2022-06-06Climate change has compressed and conflated human and geologic time scales, making it essential to find ways to conceptualize “deep time.” My project, Naturalists of the Long Now, seeks to make notions of deep time comprehensible through visual exploration of glacier ice, as well as other earthly archives. Initially inspired by the 10,000 Year Clock Project of the Long Now Foundation, I have begun collaborating with scientists to make art that challenges viewers to think about the vast scales of geologic time—both past and future—that are recorded not only in the earth’s ice bodies, but in trees, sediments, and fossils.
Exhibition runs through to July 2nd, 2022
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland
OR 97209
