Dan Corson

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environmental site works

Trace Trace: 2001 Temporary Environmental Interaction. Clearcross Montana. Fluorescent water tracing dye is added to a river to make the invisible currents visible. This dye is safe for fish and wildlife but creates a beautiful and highly disturbing ephemeral gesture within the landscape. A timed exposure of the glass floats as they decended down the stream into the ocean. Mahalapu Floats
Lake Ring of Fire "15' d: water, propane flame: ©1991A site specific environmental sculpture of a 15 foot diameter ring with flames erupting up to 3 feet high. 30' d: ©1989 Mandalla Medicine Wheel
Night Fire Swim 3'h x 35'w x 2'd and lake Trace: 2001 Temporary Environmental Interaction. Clearcross Montana. Fluorescent water tracing dye is added to a river to make the invisible currents visible. This dye is safe for fish and wildlife but creates a beautiful and highly disturbing ephemeral gesture within the landscape. Veiled Aquifer
P. A. M. (WFS) Post -Apocalypitc Mythos (WFS) , Black Rock Desert, Nevada. A temporary environmental installation created for the Burning Man Project in an expansive dry lakebed desert. Neon wave forms were top painted to focus blue and turquoise light into the sculpted troughs. Fire erupted from another rippling trough, and a red neon snake matched the other light emitting undulating forms. The imagery is from a mythology created for a previous exhibition in Prague- Jeskyne Ohniveho Draka (Grotto of the Flame Serpent) aqua.sheet.w Civita Residency
Star Landing Star Landing 1997 Temporary Site-specific Environmental Sculpture, Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada. 200' x150', random blinking Green LED's in an intersecting matrix imbedded into the desert floor crop.spiral Spiral Flames
Technology in Waterscape Technology in Waterscape , Skowhegan Maine Consisted of 6-8 foot long fluorescent tubes 10 feet under water, 100 ft offshore that were colored the hue of blue bioluminescent water creatures. The tubes appeared to float 3" above the lake surface when the weather was calm. On other occasions, the light provided blue lightening like patterns, and when storms created swells, the waves were filled with volumes of blue light, and then returned to darkness. waterlines.3w Waterlines
   
Copyright © Dan Corson 1989-2012