The media are not toys… they can be entrusted only to new artists, because they are art forms.
(McLuhan, 1954)
Island of Sequence
Time, Sequence, Event:The Island Mapping Process
Site: Tasmania, Australia
Year: Fall 2020
+mappingprocess +industriallandscape +marineecology +sediment +basalt +landslip +erosion +soil +degradation
In Tasmania landslips occur
on the geologically immature basalt soils along the north west coast, and the
steep Jurassic dolerite and sedimentary slopes of the southern midlands and
Huon channel. Landslips or mass movements are most frequent on slopes above 250 with
little vegetation and high annual rainfall. These occur on Basalts scarps of
the north-west coast and steep upper slopes on Jurassic dolerite and
sedimentary rocks in the Huon Valley. In the past two years, Tasmania's
north-west coast has been experiencing accelerated coastal erosion with
winter's king tides and storms again causing widespread damage. This process of erosion,
flooding, and the resulting influx of contaminated land-use soils into marine
systems is twofold: the physical erosion of the material (coastal soils) and
the resulting increasing speed of inundation, which brings further contaminated
soils underwater. The final
production of this process model is a 4 hour, 48 minute long video, three
photo montages, and a long strip of documentation photos showing this coastal
landscape’s slow but sure deterioration over time.
