Erin Berry
hyperprocess | The Seed | Conjunction | Material Signs | Material Signs and Humunculus Column | Geodigital Archive | Labyrinth | Geo Seeds | Gyrolyth Spine
This sculpture is a 7.5-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide walk-in spiral constructed from 238, 14x14 inch ram-pressed bricks. The face of each brick is embedded with a digitally altered 3D scan of the local Devonian shale, referencing the geologic history beneath Alfred, NY. The spiral functions as both archive and vessel, a passage through sedimented time. On the interior, the bricks cradle digitally derived objects: speculative relics, anatomical fragments, fossils, and hybrids of organic and artificial life. These forms were 3D scanned, mirrored, and mutated in digital space before being printed or cast in clay, plastic, or metal. Some were also borrowed from the Alfred Geology Department, including coral and fossils from the same area of upstate NY that are over 400 million years old. The installation collapses geologic, technological, and biological time into a single structure, asking how we situate ourselves in the Anthropocene, and what we choose to preserve, ecologically, digitally and culturally. Through changes of scale, material and textural repetition, and a physical relationship with the sculptures, encouraging an awareness of their body in space, in time and in its material relationship to the earth.
2025
Clay, Aluminum, PLA, Silicone, Steel, Nylon, Plasticine, Geological Samples, donated and found obgects.