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Unconformities, Schisms and Sutures: Geology and the Art of Mythology in Scotland
- Matt Baker (author)
- John Gordon (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 163–169)
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| Title | Unconformities, Schisms and Sutures |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Geology and the Art of Mythology in Scotland |
| Contributor | Matt Baker (author) |
| John Gordon (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.27 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Baker, Matt; Gordon, John |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-04 |
| Long abstract | In the late 18th century, James Hutton’s insights opened new worlds, both geological and cul-tural. For the first time, human identity could be placed against a geological timescale, allowing the emergence of new mythologies. Hutton’s theory, underpinned by the concept of geological “unconformity,” the interruption in the “rock record” of the natural sequence of rocks, led to a new scientific and rational understanding of geology. That new understanding led to the ques-tioning of creation mythologies through empirical science, creating senses of displacement or “unconformity” among people during the Enlightenment. Humans found their senses of self and their traditional mythologies displaced in relation to, or not conforming to, the notion of deep time.As the science of Geology set about developing an empirical understanding of the “abyss of time” (as described by John Playfair) and reconstructing Earth history (the “worlds before Adam” in the words of Martin Rudwick), artists wrestled with a different problem: how to build new mythologies that situated humankind’s sense of self in relationship to this longest of all time-signatures. The different historical responses we present here conclude with the produc-tion of “nonconformities” in the landscape by contemporary artists who are re-appropriating geologic science as the material for new mythologies that connect human time to deep time. |
| Page range | pp. 163–169 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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