Reading the Landscape (Ancient Ocean Testament: Castle Rock, Kanseas)

Andrew S. Yang, artist

born 1973

Reading the Landscape (Ancient Ocean Testament: Castle Rock, Kanseas), 2019

Portfolio/Series title: Theory of the Earth, Volume IV

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: geological specimens; salvaged books

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist

Accession number: IA2019.001.02

Not on display

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These sculptural installations evoke the structures of geological layers and mimic well-known formations that can be found in western Kansas. Yang created composite images of photographs originally taken by John Charlton, who worked for the Kansas Geological Survey. Charlton photographed these notable sites on two separate occasions, documenting slow and drastic changes in the landscape over time. The word Kanseas that appears in some
of the works’ titles is also a reference to changes over time. The Midwest region of the continent was at one time the location of an inland sea.