Amy Hoagland - "Time As Material"

Hello, my name is Amy Hoagland. I am an artist working in sculpture, and I create sculptural installations interested in the human relationship with the surrounding landscape. I often work with materials such as glass, metal, and projected light. This sculpture that you were reviewing is entitled Time as Material. It involves a hanging hand-sculpted scientific glass structure above a slumped scientific glass structure that was created the same as the hanging one, and was later slumped in a kiln, and then an HD video production of ice in the Arctic. I created the scientific glass sculptures using a similar process to welding. With a torch melting ends of together to create the forms. I’m interested in the translucency of the glass, how it transmits light, and how it carries information through materiality. I am really interested in geology as an artist and how materials carry information about time such as rocks, ice, or tress for that matter. The projected images and videos were recorded during an Arctic Circle residency that I completed in June 2023. During this residency, I was looking at the ice as a time signifier. I was thinking about the air bubbles held within the ice. Air bubbles from millions of years ago are commingling with air bubbles that I’ve been recently frozen. With this work and contemplating the idea of time as material. Thank you for viewing and for listening.