After/Before *1, *2, *3
2019
Ceramic glaze
Dimensions vary
Ceramic glaze slabs with various minerals. Presented in backwards secession it invokes discovery, whereas the title of the work reads that the piece became covered over and hidden only after its creation. A thin layer of petroleum jelly separates the individual slabs from the plaster, forming a type of geological one-part mold within. The physical artwork can become unearthed and experienced again only through destruction of the wall itself. The prior creation of the glaze slabs uses a bed of mainly calcium carbonate, suspending the glaze and minerals through firing. After cooling this bed slowly gets dissolved away and brushed off to reveal where the glaze, loose clay, and minerals fused together. Later these mineral artifacts become cut up and broken into different shapes before getting installed into the wall, eventually getting buried by plaster and smoothed over. Installed in a residential job site on College Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana.