Amanda Kidd-Kestler

Approaching Relic

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash Harvey Sadow, Fire and Flood/Sacred Sites

ceramic installation of 25 artist-created fossils

30 x 36″

2022

Approaching Relic is an installation of 25 artist created fossils. Each piece depicts a common weed, insect, or small animal native to North America. Ceramic stoneware is known for its resilience and durability. By pressing botanical specimens and linoleum printmaking plates carved with images of insects and small birds into the clay, a fossil is created that could last thousands of years. Will these species remain or become relics?

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