COLLAPSED – INFLATED
Thomas Hutton
15.09.18 – 25.10.18
"Flesh conceals bones. Buried inside the core, bone marrow produces blood. Oxygen flows through blood. Anaximenes of Miletus proposed pneuma to be the first element. Pneumatologists study the Holy Spirit. Through condensation pneuma becomes visible; it falls as water, amasses as earth and stone, and rarefies into fire. A temperature of 898°C decomposes calcium carbonate into calcium oxide or “quicklime” which decomposes flesh. By adding water it becomes calcium hydroxide which cures in the air and hardens back into limestone. Beds of limestone are sliced into sheets. The undertaker’s slab carries a body, veiled in a sheet before entombment in its sarcophagus. Sarkophagos from the words sarx “flesh” and phagein “to eat”. The tombs from Assos that ate flesh were limestone. Limestone forms from the sediment of calcite in thermal springs and rivers. The Tiber was called Albulula because it was white with calcite. The Aniene feeds the Tiber from Tivoli which was called Tibur. Travertine limestone was called Tiburtinus. A Tibia is a pipe or flute. The tibia is a bone."
Untitled (collapsed), 2018
Calcium carbonate, composite resin, alkyd resin, iron oxide, carbon steel, compressed air
Untitled (inflated), 2018
Calcium carbonate, composite resin, alkyd resin, iron oxide, carbon steel, compressed air
Prototype Ensemble, 2018
Cartongesso, silicone glue, calce-cemento