{"id":2809,"date":"2016-10-06T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzine.is\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2020-01-27T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:19:00","slug":"photography-geologic-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzine.is\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Photography and Geologic Time &#8211; an inquiry into the perception of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8220;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8220;on&#8220; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8220;on|desktop&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;Section&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.22&#8243; custom_padding_tablet=&#8220;50px|0|50px|0&#8243; custom_padding_phone=&#8220;&#8220; transparent_background=&#8220;off&#8220; padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220; make_fullwidth=&#8220;off&#8220; use_custom_width=&#8220;off&#8220; width_unit=&#8220;off&#8220; custom_width_px=&#8220;1080px&#8220; custom_width_percent=&#8220;80%&#8220;][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=&#8220;https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_0small.jpg&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;Fullwidth Image&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.0.87&#8243; animation=&#8220;off&#8220; use_border_color=&#8220;off&#8220; border_color=&#8220;#ffffff&#8220; border_width=&#8220;1px&#8220; border_style=&#8220;solid&#8220;] [\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8220;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8220;on|desktop&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;section&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.22&#8243; custom_padding_tablet=&#8220;50px|0|50px|0&#8243; custom_padding_phone=&#8220;&#8220; transparent_background=&#8220;off&#8220; padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220; make_fullwidth=&#8220;off&#8220; use_custom_width=&#8220;off&#8220; width_unit=&#8220;off&#8220; custom_width_px=&#8220;1080px&#8220; custom_width_percent=&#8220;80%&#8220;][et_pb_row padding_mobile=&#8220;off&#8220; column_padding_mobile=&#8220;on&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;row&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8220;initial&#8220; background_position=&#8220;top_left&#8220; background_repeat=&#8220;repeat&#8220; make_fullwidth=&#8220;off&#8220; use_custom_width=&#8220;off&#8220; width_unit=&#8220;off&#8220; custom_width_px=&#8220;1080px&#8220; custom_width_percent=&#8220;80%&#8220;][et_pb_column type=&#8220;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8220;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8220;|||&#8220; custom_padding__hover=&#8220;|||&#8220;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8220;off&#8220; featured_image=&#8220;off&#8220; admin_label=&#8220;Post Title&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.0.87&#8243; title_font=&#8220;Lato|on|||&#8220; title_font_size=&#8220;35px&#8220; title_all_caps=&#8220;on&#8220; parallax=&#8220;on&#8220; parallax_method=&#8220;off&#8220; use_border_color=&#8220;off&#8220; border_color=&#8220;#ffffff&#8220; border_width=&#8220;1px&#8220; border_style=&#8220;solid&#8220; parallax_effect=&#8220;on&#8220;] [\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8220;Text&#8220; _builder_version=&#8220;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8220;initial&#8220; background_position=&#8220;top_left&#8220; background_repeat=&#8220;repeat&#8220; use_border_color=&#8220;off&#8220; border_color=&#8220;#ffffff&#8220; border_style=&#8220;solid&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Normally, we think of rocks as dead material, but on a microscopic level they are in constant growth, animated by invisible chemical processes. The formation of lava rocks is namely an active process from the outset that continues to develop throughout their life cycle. The project revolves around how one can expand the perception of time by looking at the internal structures and processes of lava rocks. \u00a0<\/strong>(Veronika Geiger)<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1small.jpg\" alt=\"image_1small\" width=\"1000\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1small-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1small-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1small-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Detail of Hraun (2016)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geology and photography are seemingly two fields of thought and action running in parallel streams that rarely intersect with the other except when photographs are taken to rely scientific information about geologic structures. However, both have the ability to relay contemplative inquiry into the perception of time through simple data. Both photography and geology hold a return to origins, a seeking out of the bedrock from which we can know what we know. They both relay a simple equation of cause and effect, whether in the darkroom or through larger processes like the shifting of tectonic plates. Veronika Geiger\u2019s approach to these two fields is inspired by Land Art practices and in this way photography becomes an extension of Land Art. With a background in Fine Art photography from Glasgow School of Art and a recent MFA from Iceland Academy of the Arts, Veronika delves into her experiments with the compulsion of a hypothesis being tested. Methodologically she follows her curiosity with the balance of imagination and chemical fact, reality and speculation.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2small-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2small-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Hraun (2016) No. 6281 and 6285, Gelatin silver print, 100 x 150 cm, Rock type: Gabbro xenoliths from silicic tuff, Place: Kambsfjall, Kr\u00f3ksfj\u00f6rdur, Vestfirdir, Iceland, Age: 10 million years old, Petrographic slides borrowed from the Icelandic Institute of Natural History<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For five days at the beginning of August 2016, Veronika and I followed a group of geologists with a variety of research focuses in the Askja area and especially in the new lavafield, Holuhraun. Holuhraun lies just north of Vatnaj\u00f6kull in the Highlands. On August 29, 2014, a volcanic eruption began that produced lava spreading over 85 square km by the time the eruption ended on February 27, 2015. The original surface of Holuhraun was an older lava flow from 1797 (Icelandic Meteorological Office.)<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3small-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3small-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Holuhraun lava field<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the expertise of Morten Riishus, a danish senior researcher in volcanology and geology at the Institute of Earth Science, University of Iceland, we got the priviledge to get insights into geological research methods in the field. Three overlapping research projects took place; the first was looking at the geomorphological and geochemical processes of change in relation to how volcanic glass, dust, and sand from Vatnaj\u00f6kull is transported towards the Northeast across the dunes in the desert landscape north of the glacier; another project looked at the microbiology and colonization of barren land at Holuhraun, i.e. the first signs of life on new lava; the third project aimed to create an analog of the Mars Curiousity Rover\u2019s gigapanning scheme, a camera that creates a matrix of images with the ability to be zoomed in up to 800 times. We were grateful to be allowed this chance to follow the geologists\u2019 work in the field, asking them questions and documenting their process.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2857 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4small-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4small-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Geologist Morten Riishuus and microbiologist Anu Hynninen at work<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day we rode with the geologists through a valley that is flooded daily with glacial runoff. These glacial rivulets arrive in tiny trickles from a great distance. With light sensitive paper placed gingerly in the path of the rivulets, Veronika captured an aspect of their movement and aesthetic that a normal photograph couldn\u2019t capture. Her \u2018photograph\u2019 of the glacial flood rivulets were from the actual body of the rivulets, their weight and flow appearing on the paper in different shades. The paper has received its color and patterning directly from the water, with immediate impressions of the light and weather-conditions present on the day they were made.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2858 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5small-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5small-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Geologic tool<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another day we trekked with sheets of handmade paper to Viti, a crater filled with warm cloudy blue water situated next to the larger crater lake, \u00d6skjuvatn. The plain of black sand that we crossed before arriving at the crater gave us a good sense of the surrounding landscape and its vastness. Taking the papers one at a time, some more porous and thick than others, they were let into the silty, mud bottom of Viti\u2019s edges where they gathered directly onto the paper an impression of how sediments are transported. In an expansion of the photographic moment, an impression was taken that included movement, weight, and porosity.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6small-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6small-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>V\u00edti Crater<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later that day we followed the geologists to an area where natural springs created a flowing creek among new lava and old lava. Here, algae that had grown in the spring was placed onto the light sensitive paper and set directly in the sun. Again, the weight and body of the algae created an impression on the paper. In places where the algae blocked the sunlight, the paper remained a distinct shade from the parts marked by sunlight. Any chemical variations resulting from reactions between the water, the algae, and the paper will be seen later in the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hiking on a trail marked through the edge of Holohraun, the two year old lava was distinctly loud under our boots, the brittle whisps of once fluid mass strung across larger bodies of lavarock. In some areas, deposits of sulphur, white and yellow, formed along the mouths of cavernous openings. Attempts were made to take impressions on these deposits, as well as on the sun-heated surfaces. Taking samples of these, as well as of the fine lunar-like sand, Veronika hopes to find a chemical means of fixing them to the image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in Reykjav\u00edk, we recorded an open conversation between Morten, Veronika, and I, each representing the approaches of geology, photography, and art history\/theory. The intention was to learn more about each of our research interests, the craft of each of our fields, and how they overlapped. It offered me the opportunity to reflect on the idea of the geologic time period of the Anthropocene as an aesthetic event. The Anthropocene opens up an epochal way of thinking about time as well as narrative. The narrative involved in threading the events of an epoch shows how we create meaning in the space between the encounter of different temporalities.\u00a0This is the encounter that is crucial in Geiger&#8217;s\u00a0project. An example of an\u00a0encounter\u00a0in\u00a0geologic\u00a0time-scales is presented by Morten Riishuus in the following excerpt from the interview:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>As you\u2019re driving from Akureyri east, you\u2019re driving through a volcanic succession that is tilted, layered and packaged toward the Southeast\u2026. If you think about it, you\u2019re driving east and the landscape you\u2019re driving through, this tilted strata towards the East, means you\u2019re driving forward in time as all the layers disappear into the earth.\u00a0<\/em>(Morten Riishuus)<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7small.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7small-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7small-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Lava from Holuhraun eruption<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media theorist, Jussi Parikka writes about the term <em>deep time<\/em> which was first used by Siefried Zielinski in the discussion of aspects of media. Parikka\u2019s new materialism of media emphasies a different notion of temporality and spatiality by pointing out how media technology is tightly linked with natural materials. Expanding the temporal use of the term <em>deep time, <\/em>Parikka uses it to combine the geological materials enabling media processes, and the temporality of the earth, which consists of billions of years of build-up and break-down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this way, Veronika\u2019s experiments with photography continue the narrative of material processes of the earth out-of-ground, cultivating the temporality of the earth in a new medium that includes the human senses. In her project at Holuhraun she continued her focus on how one can expand the perception of time by looking at the internal structures and processes of lava rocks.\u00a0By observing the physical layers and traces of time in the rock, the tension between the geological time-scale and biological time-scale becomes concrete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Erin Honeycutt<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is a link to a transcription of the interview in its entirety: <a href=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/interview-transcription.pdf\">interview-transcription<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, we think of rocks as dead material, but on a microscopic level they are in constant growth, animated by invisible chemical processes. The formation of lava rocks is namely an active process from the outset that continues to develop throughout their life cycle. The project revolves around how one can expand the perception of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Normally, we think of rocks as dead material, but on a microscopic level they are in constant growth, animated by invisible chemical processes. The formation of lava rocks is namely an active process from the outset that continues to develop throughout their life cycle. The project revolves around how one can expand the perception of time by looking at the internal structures and processes of lava rocks.<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geology and photography are seemingly two fields of thought and action running in parallel streams that rarely intersect with the other except when photographs are taken to rely scientific information about geologic structures. However, both have the ability to relay contemplative inquiry into the perception of time through simple data. Both photography and geology hold a return to origins, a seeking out of the bedrock from which we can know what we know. They both relay a simple equation of cause and effect, whether in the darkroom or through larger processes like the shifting of tectonic plates. Veronika Geiger\u2019s approach to these two fields is inspired by Land Art practices and in this way photography becomes an extension of Land Art. With a background in Fine Art photography from Glasgow School of Art and a recent MFA from Iceland Academy of the Arts, Veronika delves into her experiments with the compulsion of a hypothesis being tested. Methodologically she follows her curiosity with the balance of imagination and chemical fact, reality and speculation.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2811 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_1-1024x758.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" \/>Veronika Geiger, Denmark. Detail of Hraun (2016)<\/h5><p>Geology and photography are seemingly two fields of thought and action running in parallel streams that rarely intersect with the other except when photographs are taken to rely scientific information about geologic structures. However, both have the ability to relay contemplative inquiry into the perception of time through simple data. Both photography and geology hold a return to origins, a seeking out of the bedrock from which we can know what we know. They both relay a simple equation of cause and effect, whether in the darkroom or through larger processes like the shifting of tectonic plates. Veronika Geiger\u2019s approach to these two fields is inspired by Land Art practices and in this way photography becomes an extension of Land Art. With a background in Fine Art photography from Glasgow School of Art and a recent MFA from Iceland Academy of the Arts, Veronika delves into her experiments with the compulsion of a hypothesis being tested. Methodologically she follows her curiosity with the balance of imagination and chemical fact, reality and speculation.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2812 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_2-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/>Hraun (2016) No. 6281 and 6285, Gelatin silver print, 100 x 150 cm, Rock type: Gabbro xenoliths from silicic tuff, Place: Kambsfjall, Kr\u00f3ksfj\u00f6rdur, Vestfirdir, Iceland, Age: 10 million years old, Petrographic slides borrowed from the Icelandic Institute of Natural History<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For five days at the beginning of August 2016, Veronika and I followed a group of geologists with a variety of research focuses in the Askja area and especially in the new lavafield Holuhraun. Holuhraun lies just north of Vatnaj\u00f6kull in the Highlands. On August 29, 2014, a volcanic eruption began that produced lava spreading over 85 square km by the time the eruption ended on February 27, 2015. The original surface of Holuhraun was an older lava flow from 1797.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2813 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_3-1024x684.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>Holuhraun lava field<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the expertise of Morten Riishus, a danish senior researcher in volcanology and geology at the Institute of Earth Science, University of Iceland, we got the priviledge to get insights into geological research methods in the field. Three overlapping research projects took place; the first was looking at the geomorphological and geochemical processes of change in relation to how volcanic glass, dust, and sand from Vatnaj\u00f6kull is transported towards the Northeast across the dunes in the desert landscape north of the glacier; another project looked at the microbiology and colonization of barren land at Holuhraun, i.e. the first signs of life on new lava; the third project aimed to create an analog of the Mars Curiousity Rover\u2019s gigapanning scheme, a camera that creates a matrix of images with the ability to be zoomed in up to 800 times. We were grateful to be allowed this chance to follow the geologists\u2019 work in the field, asking them questions and documenting their process.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2814 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_4-1024x684.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>Geologist Morten Riishuus and microbiologist Anu Hynninen at work<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day we rode with the geologists through a valley that is flooded daily with glacial runoff. These glacial rivulets arrive in tiny trickles from a great distance. With light sensitive paper placed gingerly in the path of the rivulets, Veronika captured an aspect of their movement and aesthetic that a normal photograph couldn\u2019t capture. Her \u2018photograph\u2019 of the glacial flood rivulets were from the actual body of the rivulets, their weight and flow appearing on the paper in different shades. The paper has received its color and patterning directly from the water, with immediate impressions of the light and weather-conditions present on the day they were made.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2815 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_5-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"image_5\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>Geology tool<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another day we trekked with sheets of handmade paper to Viti, a crater filled with warm cloudy blue water situated next to the larger crater lake, \u00d6skjuvatn. The plain of black sand that we crossed before arriving at the crater gave us a good sense of the surrounding landscape and its vastness. Taking the papers one at a time, some more porous and thick than others, they were let into the silty, mud bottom of Viti\u2019s edges where they gathered directly onto the paper an impression of how sediments are transported. In an expansion of the photographic moment, an impression was taken that included movement, weight, and porosity.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2816 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_6-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"image_6\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>V\u00edti Crater<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later that day we followed the geologists to an area where natural springs created a flowing creek among new lava and old lava. Here, algae that had grown in the spring was placed onto the light sensitive paper and set directly in the sun. Again, the weight and body of the algae created an impression on the paper. In places where the algae blocked the sunlight, the paper remained a distinct shade from the parts marked by sunlight. Any chemical variations resulting from reactions between the water, the algae, and the paper will be seen later in the laboratory.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hiking on a trail marked through the edge of Holohraun, the two year old lava was distinctly loud under our boots, the brittle whisps of once fluid mass strung across larger bodies of lavarock. In some areas, deposits of sulphur, white and yellow, formed along the mouths of cavernous openings. Attempts were made to take impressions on these deposits, as well as on the sun-heated surfaces. Taking samples of these, as well as of the fine lunar-like sand, Veronika hopes to find a chemical means of fixing them to the image.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in Reykjav\u00edk, we recorded an open conversation between Morten, Veronika, and I, each representing the approaches of geology, photography, and art history\/theory. The intention was to learn more about each of our research interests, the craft of each of our fields, and how they overlapped. It offered me the opportunity to reflect on the idea of the geologic time period of the Anthropocene as an aesthetic event. The anthropocene opens up an epochal way of thinking about time as well as narrative. The narrative involved in threading the events of an epoch shows how we create meaning in the space between knowledge and the unknown.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media theorist, Jussi Parikka writes about the term <em>deep time<\/em> which was first used by Siefried Zielinski in the discussion of aspects of media. Parikka\u2019s new materialism of media emphasies a different notion of temporality and spatiality by pointing out how media technology is tightly linked with natural materials. Expanding the temporal use of the term <em>deep time, <\/em>Parikka uses it to combine the geological materials enabling media processes, and the temporality of the earth, which consists of billions of years of build-up and break-down.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this way, Veronika\u2019s experiments with photography continue the narrative of material processes of the earth out-of-ground, cultivating the temporality of the earth in a new medium that includes the human senses. In her project at Holuhraun she continued her focus on how one can expand the perception of time by looking at the internal structures and processes of lava rocks. By observing the physical layers and traces of time on the rock, the tension between the geological time-scale and biological time-scale becomes concrete and this encounter is crucial in her project.<\/p><h5><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2817 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/image_7-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"image_7\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/>Lava from Holuhraun eruption<\/h5><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morten Riishuus explains the meeting with the geological time-scale in the following excerpt from the interview:<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>As you\u2019re driving from Akureyri east, you\u2019re driving through a volcanic succession that is tilted, layered and packaged toward the Southeast\u2026. If you think about it, you\u2019re driving east and the landscape you\u2019re driving through, this tilted strata towards the east, means you\u2019re driving forward in time as all the layers disappear into the earth.\u00a0(Morten Riishuus, Danish geologist)<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you would like to read a transcription of the conversation in its entirety please send an email to erinhoneycutt7@gmail.com<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artzine-in-english","tag-erin-honeycut"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photography and Geologic Time - an inquiry into the perception of time - artzine.is<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artzine.is\/?p=2809\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"is_IS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photography and Geologic Time - an inquiry into the perception of time - artzine.is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Normally, we think of rocks as dead material, but on a microscopic level they are in constant growth, animated by invisible chemical processes. 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