Completed Projects

Parkwood Station Art Glass

The glass windscreens are collages from various photos taken by the artist and geological maps. Each includes a timeline in the side panel composed of images that reference a sweep of geological and biological history. There is a marker that indicates the particular windscreen image within the larger context.

The timeline simply presents the rich diversity of life on earth and helps tell the story of the rare fossil found in Stanley County, NC; an early multi-cellular life form that lived in shallow waters, surrounding land that later was joined to the eastern edge of North America, and became what is now North Carolina.

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The southbound platform art glass focuses on geological history with an emphasis on three specific activities:

1. The rare, pre-Cambrian, metazoan fossil discovered in the Carolina Slate Belt, Southwest Africa, South Australia, and Russia.

2. Three Stages of tectonic activity leading to the formation of the Piedmont region

3. The process of gold formation.

The northbound platform art glass highlights three periods of plate tectonics that led to the formation of present day North Carolina. A subtle outline of the states with an emphasis on North Carolina, orients the viewer in the unfamiliar shape of each ancient landform.

1. Middle Cambrian Era

2. Early Jurassic Era

3. Early Cretaceous Era

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