Art as science or science as art - the boundaries become blurred or irrelevent as bodies of knowledge are fused into fresh fields of inquiry.

Donald Brook, Tim Burns, Mark Cypher, Andrew Woods and David Carson at the opening of Geoderma at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art  - Festival of Perth  1998

3D video- projection PICA 1998

3D digital image (5m x 4m) at PICA 1998

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 1998

Square canvases stretched tight over wooden frames support thin emulsive membranes of PVA. Within these membranes are suspended veins of red and black oxide - anatomy and geology dissolve into a display of reciprocal similarity, the artist hovers between prospector and geomancer.

Kalgoorlie Arts Centre Gallery 1997

Geoderma painting 1998

Geoderma painting 1998

Corporeal referrants are flayed and the hides hung out to dry in the cultural cordon sanitaire of the gallery.

Geoderma painting 1998

all images copyright Carson/McClave

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