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
impact...@aol.com
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From: Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list
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To: Peter Davidson <p.david...@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@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
National Museums Collection Centre
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Edinburgh
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