When the Glacier Retreats
当那冰川撤退
Type Sculpture / Material Experiment
雕塑 / 材料实验
LocaleThe Drowned Lands, New York, USA
纽约州大淹地
Year2021
When the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to retreat in North America about 20,000 years ago, it erased (almost) everything on its trace of displacement, including certain prehistoric topographic unevenness. Soon afterwards came a large scale of tide and ebb, until surficial objects got sedimented again.
大约 2 万年前，当劳伦泰德冰盖开始在北美消退时，它（几乎）抹去了其移动轨迹上所触碰的一切，包括某种史前地形的不均匀性。紧随其后的是大规模的涨水与消退，直至地表物经浮力再次沉淀。
This set of material experiments re-imagines that period of climatic history, revealing the past materiality of the Drowned Lands through geological model and papermaking process. In the current context of rapid climate change, the experiment reframes the last round of massive de-glaciation process and marks down the cycling natural phenomenon.
这组材料实验再次想象了那段气候史，将北美大淹地曾经的材质感，以地质模型、纸张制作等方式予以展现。 在人类再次面临气候快速变化的当下，实验重拾了上一轮大规模冰退的历程，并标示出循环往复的自然现象。
Black dirt, concrete, sand, hemp, gelatin, rock, rotten tree bark
50x15x12cm
由冰川退却塑形的在场岩石
湿地与土壤地图