[meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson

[Anne Black]

I have to agree with Michael, Sorry Peter.
When you melt a meteorite you destroy the crystallization that has 
occurred over billions of years, the Widmanstatten pattern.
You are left with a lump of metal that used to be a meteorite.
Personally, knowing what she was about to do to it, I would have 
refused to sell a meteorite to that "artist".

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
 From: Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list 
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To: Peter Davidson <P.Davidson at nms.ac.uk>
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Sent: Thu, Jul 31, 2014 1:45 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Sculpture by Katie Paterson


"Melting a meteorite and reforming it is a little bit like compressing
and merging together these layers of time, history and space.
Eventually I would like to send the meteorite back into Space,"

Replace "compressing and merging" with "destroying" and then you have
a valid statement.  Once melted and reformed, referring to it as a
meteorite is no
longer correct.

Michael in so. Cal.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Peter Davidson via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Dear Listoids
>
> I make no claim to be an expert on contemporary art/artists, 
nevertheless I
have worked with a number of artists over the last few years in my role 
as a
mineral curator for the National Museums and this has allowed me to get 
a
glimpse of the way different artists devise, plan and execute their 
works. I
haven't had the pleasure of working with Katie, but I do know her and I 
have met
her and we have had some long discussions about meteorites and she does 
feature
meteorites and space in her work a lot. So I feel I ought to give my 
angle on
this as well as try and explain her work on the Campo using her own 
words.
>
> The original concept was formulated in around 2010/11 and the 
finished cast
was exhibited in London in 2012. At about that time she gave an 
interview and
the following quote is lifted directly from the published article:
>
> "...The artist domesticates the cosmos' immensity: she gives the 
unfathomable
a human scale, putting it within our reach. "The cast meteorite will 
likely be
placed on Exhibition Road (close to the Natural History Museum) in a 
discrete
place, where people can sit around it and be able to touch it," she 
says. "Most
meteorites have been travelling around space for over four and a half 
billion
years. They are older than the Earth and are the oldest objects on 
Earth. I like
the idea of this vast cosmic history embedded inside them. Melting a 
meteorite
and reforming it is a little bit like compressing and merging together 
these
layers of time, history and space. Eventually I would like to send the 
meteorite
back into Space, though that might not be for many years."
>
> Well the many years have now past and Katie has send the recast 
meteorite into
space.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Davidson
> Senior Curator of Minerals
>
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