Thank You Everyone!!!

The Team!

(L-R: Aga, Carissa Samaniego, Toma Villa, Tamsie Ringler, Jessica MacWithey, Aga Sulek, Miles Browne)

Thank you!

Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women Opportunities and Initiatives Grant

Arts Council of Wales

Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop

Custom Tube Company

Sculpture Cymru

St. Catherine University Undergraduate Program Research Grant

St. Catherine University Faculty Travel Award

Senate/St. Kate's Activity Team Student Advancement Fund

Starseed Foundation

West Wales School of the Arts

Transmission Pour Video

Transmission: Palus Somnii (Marsh of Sleep)

Palus Somnii (Marsh of Sleep) was cast during the 6^th International Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Kidwelly, Wales in July 2010. Using a stripped Vauxhall Corsa as a flask, molten iron was poured directly into the vehicle’s interior. The act of the pour itself, or “Transmission,” was intended to redescribe the car in relation to the material of its own creation and our own experience. The public iron pour presented an elemental material and an ordinary vehicle as explosive spectacle, similar to the explosive introduction of petroleum into our culture and environment. Once unmolded, the car and its interior forms of a Mississippi River carp and giant horsetails became a narrative about cars and their relationship to the environment; specifically their reliance on fossil fuels derived from primordial sources and our reliance on increasingly scarce and environmentally destructive fuel resources.