Cast 3 (4,600,000,000 Years)
Cameron Gainer
Placing emphasis on the poetic gesture, Cameron Gainer takes a meteorite naturally composed of iron and nickel, melting it down into molten metal and reforming it into its original form. The title “Cast” refers to both the method of production and the removal of time by resetting the object’s atomic clock. An object once 4.6 billion years old is reborn through the same material and process of its making. In doing so, Gainer asks questions of environmental care, the anthropocene’s impact on the reshaping of the world, and what ‘landscape art’ can be.
Cast 3 (4,600,000,000 Years) , 2012
course octahedrite meteorites melted and recast into original form (iron and nickel-based meteorite melted and cast into its original form)
5 1/2 x 6 x 4 in
14 x 15.2 x 10.2 cm
course octahedrite meteorites melted and recast into original form (iron and nickel-based meteorite melted and cast into its original form)
5 1/2 x 6 x 4 in
14 x 15.2 x 10.2 cm
