Welcome to the Anthropocene, Vitruvius.
The structure draws from an ancient architectural typology: the temple as primative hut, an enclosing device to denote a place of shelter and worship. This hut reflects its environment, its four columns and lintels disappearing, mirroring the sky, t
The stages of Lake Agassiz, from 16,000BCY to 11,000BCY, showing drainage paths and events. Forgotten Topographies...  11,000 years ago, Winnipeg sat at the bottom of glacial Lake Agassiz, along with a large portion of the central North Ame
Sacri(fice)  provides an accelerated encounter with glacial change, encouraging reflection on the acceleration of climate change provoked by human actions.
Water and Salt...  Over three-hundred  clear plastic vessels hang in rows between the lintels, exposed to the sun and elements. The vessels contain a saline rose water solution, fed by a bladder system supported within the lintels. R
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Day-by-day extents of dripping on the top surface of the ice block for the month of February for years 2011-2015, in response to temperature shifts shown below.
The Sacrif(ice)  installation is recurring, with each year’s ice block cored and stored for display the following year. The cores become a unique record of climatic changes over the course of years, each core containing different degrees of me
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