Glass 3

Installation complete.
Comments tomorrow.

New site

My previous glass installation felt like a beginning and an end, with no further development necessary, other than perhaps size: an enormous, huge sheet dug into the sand would be welcome.
But, now I'm wavering. I have two sheets of glass sitting behind the shed. And I do have a stunning site:

Late in the day I brought some tools up, started preparing the surface. After a few deep breaths, without too much philosophizing, I grabbed one of the glass sheets (about 2 1/2' x 4'), large enough to cause problems in the fierce wind we have today, and staggered up the mesa. Tomorrow I will bring up the other one, hack into the sandstone below the sand, and install them.

Heat

Glass buried deep in soil. Kerosene sprinkled on and around it. Fire added:

Flames grow quickly:

Heat is intense enough for glass to crack:

Flames dance around their object, blackening it:

And shaping it:

Old skin...

...lying crumpled on the tile. My very own outer surface printed in sticky transfer stuff and stuck onto cling-film, then crumpled:

Crumpled a little less:

Same skin print stuck to silver foil, resting on another piece of silver-foil:

Glas pluss III

This is he promised overkill, which I mentioned in the previous post.

 

The glass was stained and dirty from some previous, unrelated situation. I have since cleaned it. However, I do like it to have some "surface events", but would like them to occur within the present circumstances.

 

After washing the glass: the effect of water on sand at the base; the diagonal strokes on the sand are caused by shadows from water streaking down the glass:

The wavy sand at the base of the glass. I'm not entirely sure why I persist with this theme. Having little hills of sand press against the glass from both sides is (kind of) fascinating, and I am interested to see what happens to them with the passage of time. But the pieces stand much better without this adornment, and, especially in the case of the one above, I will return them to their previous condition. The "wavy-thing" (as seen through glass) I will return to in a different context -- in some other situation.

BTW!: I noticed that an advertisement by Windex ("See how Windex cleans streaked glass", it says), suddenly appeared on one of my editing pages in Blogger. How "they" carefully watch every little move "we" make...

Glas Pluss II

General comment on the three glass installation posts: I realize that in each case the original version, pre-overkill, was superior to what I developed afterwards (slight overkill on piece posted below, I'll post tomorrow (Sat.) morning).This mainly concerns the cute little compositions of sand at the base of the glass. It would be very easy to get rid of these and return to the earlier situation, but at this stage I am interested to see what happens to the installations as they are and as they become affected by wind and possible rain over an extended period of time. "Process" invited -- (my) hands off. I will try to document these events as they occur.

Glas pluss

This site is at the top of the mesa, beside the path that runs along the edge.
The prevailing wind should hit it on-edge, water, if it ever rains heavily again, should run up to it from the ledge above.

Tomorrow I will come up here and wash the glass (or perhaps make it more dirty -- see what kind of mood I'm in).

Glass revisited

Further explorations of glass in sand. White sand is from another area from around the house. Here it is dry:

Here after some wetting:

Dry:

Wet:

Slowly edging towards overkill. I'll use sand with a different piece of glass in another location soon.
Observe changes that occur to piece over time, but this white stuff forms a hard suInstallationrface soon. Next I'll position glass with more sifty sand in a wind exposed location. Effect of running surface water will be interesting also, but since we're in a 1000 year drought cycle at the moment I might have to simulate that effect.

Fishing in the arid Southwest

Fenton Lake. Some head out for the mystery of the deep water:

Others keep a firm footing. None of these people are real vegetarians. For those thirsting for optical illusions, below contains a little bit of an optical illusion (how did he balance his chair on the tree stump?and where is his shadow? vampires fish?); if you click on the photo...that's cheating, but if you do, note the man's impressive tattoos:

Possible tangled fishing lines in this equal opportunity fishing experiment:

Here's a Native American not teaching his daughter traditional fishing techniques, but allowing her to develop her own:

Survivalists, no doubt. Outfits make them nearly invisible:

New Mexico shards

To make a little digression from this skin-thing...
Large piece of glass installed in NM "soil", with edge first painted white:

then orange: