Blocks of Time
By Henny Burnett
2023 - 2024
- Sculpture
- Mixed Media
- Environment & Sustainability
- Extraction
- Deep Time
- Geology
- Geological
- Buildings
- Art And Environment
- The Built Environment
- Building Materials
- Sustainability
Dimensions
Each block: 12 x 12 x 12cm house: 20 x 15 x 22cm
For the 2023 GroundWork Residency, The Ground Beneath Our Feet, my focus was centred around the extraction methods of building materials in Kings Lynn, and linking their past, present and future. The work was greatly influenced by a visit to the John Watson collection of building materials at the Sedgwick museum in Cambridge. The result is 'Blocks of Time,’ referencing both sedimentary rock layers and architectural models. Materials I gathered from quarries near Kings Lynn (Castle Acre chalk quarry and Middleton Aggregates) are bound precariously together in chalk/plaster.
Materials: Kimmeridge clay, flint, chalk, peat, soft and sharp sand, carrstone, daub (Kings Lynn mud & grass), chalk, plastic building grid & plaster.
Block of Time (detail) photo credit @Kelly Hill
Earth House & 2 Blocks of Time photo credit @MartinUrmson
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