Granite stones are frozen into a miniature "glacier" and mounted in a wooden frame to become a hand-tool for scribing a line in a slab of limestone. The repetitive back-and-forth of the motion to scribe the line mimics the slow advance and retreat of the glacier at a faster cadence and is reminiscent of flattening motions of handwork with a plane in carpentry. This has been performed at multiple sites of glacial significance around the Great Lakes region.

DATE: ongoing (2016-present)

MATERIALS: ice, poplar, granite, limestone slab

SCALE: endurance

DIMENSIONS: 20minute duration

SITE: various sites of glacial significance in the Great Lakes region

STATUS: incomplete

An Attempt To Understand a Glacier Without Ever Having Seen One (archive record), 2021. Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.

Lines of Descent in FRINGES Landscape Observatory (January, 2020).