Panagaea

PANAGAEA

Special Project for On Location, ARTFORUM Magazine, February 1986 Issue

The Clocktower, National and International Studio Artists Exhibition, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY

Dimensions:
9′ H x 12′ W x 15′ D
(274 H x 366 W x 457 D cm)

Elements:
Violet blue sky, steaming volcano, spheres, blue reflecting pool, cinder landscape with fire cones, flaming horizon corona, and pin-spot light bursts

Materials:
Flames, sand, carbon dioxide vapor, incandescent light, water mist, muslin, ammonium chloride smoke, steam, meteorological balloon, pigment, water, hairspray, and electric wok.

Panagaea was staged for the camera of ARTFORUM Magazine. The commission provided an opportunity to work with the most ephemeral of elements – fire, smoke, steam and mist.

The work is an emphatic declaration that the world is in flux, and it depicts the simultaneous creative and destructive forces of heat and light – of energy. Above the primordial pool, distinct rays of light emanate from an unseen source.