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'CARBORUNDUM' [ 2024 ]
[ Installation ]
[32 cm X 32 cm X 120 cm ]
[ glitter, carborundum, pyrite, glass, decorative sand, wallpaper glue, wood, epoxy resin ]
‘On All Eights’, Paradise, Den Haag
Mining, demolition, detonation, and controlled burns harbor mementos of meliorative ruination.
The most substantial refurbishments may call for a total leveling.
BELOW: raw carborundum, also knows as silicon carbide (SiC).
Click the image to watch a 1919 film about carborundum mining.
Carborundum, the poor man's diamond, is grown only to be undone.
The crystals are mined and pressed into into sandpaper, grinding wheels, grip tape and dremel bits.
This harvesting - the cut - is sustained for no purpose but the repetition of cutting.
Acts of repair require abrasion and reduction; we call this destruction "maintenance".
Detail from 'Carborundum' installation
- made from carborundum aggregate.
Used 80 grit carborundum sandpaper framed with carborundum chips.
[ 6.3 cm X 4.5 cm ]
Controlled forest fire.
[ 6.3 cm X 4.5 cm ]
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