606 S. Elm Street Core Sample

2007

altered three-story historic building in Greensboro, NC

H three-stories x Diameter 12”

Site-specific installation created while artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in 2007.

606 S. Elm Street Core Sample is the application of geological core-sampling techniques to analyze the strata of a historic building in downtown Greensboro, NC. A twelve-inch diameter core was extracted from the building and displayed vertically, mounted to a wall on the third floor. The void left by this process passes through a set of shelves containing a stack of board games, a box holding random objects, a pile of shoes, three floors, one joist, and through the tar and rock roof capping the building. A visitor of Elsewhere Artist Collaborative can stand at the passageway between 606 and 607 S. Elm Street and peer up through the entire building and into the sky.