WHEN ART MEETS SCIENCE: DEEP TIME PROJECT - Creating glass cores from sediment sample

Studio ThinkingHand is an art duo formed by @rhoda.ting and Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen. They have been working with Ocean floor sediment from extreme environments, predominately in collaboration with Professor @giulianapanieri and other scientists from the Department of Geosciences at the Arctic University of Norway. These researchers are experts on methane and hydrothermal vents in the Arctic, where microbes, foraminifera, corals and other life are evolving in seemingly toxic environments. The art duo created glass cores from sediment samples to research the diversity of organic matter and mineral content with varying locations, seasons, depths and ecosystems. The glass cores have been lit up and assembled in metal structures inspired by ice core bores. Their work -Deep Time - shows the journey down through an ice core drilling, going 2.7 million years back time. The glass columns contain sediment from a variety of extreme environments in the Arctic Sea bed, where life is evolving in directions that have been unknown until now. With this artistic research process, Studio ThinkingHad is exploring how glass cores can act as a tool for further scientific research into extreme environments, and to answer questions such as how oceanic conditions and climate change impact methane seepage from the seafloor and the impacts on ecosystem health.