Part of Geologic Cognition Society’s Underneath Is Before exhibition at SPACES, I placed several multi-sensory stations that produced the scent conditions of the shoreline of the ancient Silurian Sea that formed the salt deposit under the Great Lakes region. The scents of rotting aquatic plant matter recreate the anoxic mud full that eventually fossilized to produce the shale beds that form the edges of the salt deposit.

DATE: 2016

MATERIALS: water, Spirodela polyrhiza, Azolla filiculoides, anaerobic bacteria, Cleveland shale (Famennian age, Devonian period)

SCALE: object

DIMENSIONS: variable

SITE: n/a

STATUS: complete

Underneath Is Before (2016) SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio.