BUFFERING

a growing collection of found contemporary landscape works.

Driessens & Verstappen, Fulgurites Endoscopy (2001)

Driessens & Verstappen, Fulgurites Endoscopy (2001)
A fulgurite is a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning. The immense heat in the core of the beam makes the sand vaporize, and a beautifully glazed inner surface remains. A machine is developed to observe these inner structures of fulgurites. The objects, mounted on an XY table can be viewed through an endoscope.

Harm Van Den Dorpel, Ostrich

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Harm Van Den Dorpel, Ostrich

The cliché thought about ostriches is their hiding behavior, putting their head in the ground. I like to do this too in my work. by hiding or taking the original meaning away, the only meaning left is that of a bare and empty visual language. I think there is a lot of beauty in these residues.

Katie Paterson, Vatnajokull (the sound of)

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Katie Paterson, Vatnajokull (the sound of)

An underwater microphone lead into Jökulsárlón lagoon - an outlet glacial lagoon of Vatnajökull, filled with icebergs - connected to an amplifier, and a mobile-phone, which created a live phone line to the glacier. The number 44(0)7757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, the listener put through to Vatnajökull. A white neon sign of the phone number hung in the gallery space.