Departing from the monumental forms Donovan produced of layered and heaped styrene cards
suggesting stalagmites or wind - eroded outcroppings — which comprised part of her solo exhibition at Pace 25th Street in 2014 — the new series inverts the sculptural logic of voluminous horizontal stacking by the use of the frame as a means to control the density and orientation of the styrene cards.
Not exact matches
Previous studies
suggest the climate in the region during this time was relatively warm and wet, so the moisture needed to seep through the overlying rocks to create the
stalagmites would have been abundant, Verheyden says.
Elise Richman's small paintings pop with
stalagmites of multicolored paint that
suggest topographical island views or maps of desertification or population density.
A new study using a high - resolution
stalagmite record from Australia with cave sites in southern China reveal a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods,
suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.
Warm - weather crop farms, such as orange farms, in China were abandoned altogether and physical evidence of sediment cores and
stalagmite growth
suggest Africa was feeling the dip in temperatures during this time as well.