https://www.christinaweisner.com/work-avenue daily 0.75 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1509381799749-BQ1QX1T9XC3TSMXNC785/CLW11.jpg Work - Untitled, 2009 cardboard, wood, tape, plaster, halogen light 100 x 4 x 4 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1523126227631-4JCDYSIORTPFWI231R07/Weisner_C_02.jpg Work - River Cube Aerial Film, PVC, Metal 60 x 60 x 60 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1509380827438-ZWYRBLHJP70ZFTLQLW21/CLW3.jpg Work - Untitled, 2010 metal, nylon, velcro 43 x 43 x 43 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1718901802842-N4QQKCJ0S2Q3C5PUKKIP/IMG_7083.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1718737029654-NHLBEI7WHECG58ZIKHMY/IMG_9575.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1719087482190-7KOPYAXAETKMI65Z1Z8G/IMG_1762.jpeg Work - Polar Sea Marks “Sea Marks” are often understood as landmarks, structures and devices that can be used to provide warning and guiding signs to mariners - channel markers, orange flags, buoys and beacons. And then, there are Sea Marks of a different sort, composed of items discarded on the shore or at sea either unintentionally or intentionally: umbrellas, beach chairs, coolers, floatation devices and other plastic items. Such Sea Marks also act as a warning. Such discarded materials can be found in some of the most isolated regions on earth, such as the North Pole, either intact, broken-up, or as microplastics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1525695478961-X51Q0Q47JYCMC3LVNH16/H7D_8906.jpg Work - Ocean Bottom Seismometers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1719088303384-R3PYY3QN9N9XJHGF4TAI/CLW1.jpg Work - 493 V-Fin The “493 Vehicle of Instrumentation,” better known as the “493 V-Fin,” built by a company specializing in environmental monitoring, is a high-speed, dihedral-winged device made of fiberglass. It is weighted with lead towards the nose of its triangular form to achieve the object’s parallel orientation to the ocean floor as it is towed from behind a boat. Across the beam from the V-Fin hangs a cube filled with water which weighs the equivalent as the V-Fin (125lbs). The beam rotates on a vertical and horizontal axis. Whatever action is taking place in the cube of water is reflected in the V-Fin's positioning. Action is affected by present circumstance, which inevitably reflects processes of the world such as gravity, mass, weather, space and time. In addition, the plexiglass cube is specifically designed in such a way to allow changes in the water it contains to influence the V-Fin as a result of evaporation or dripping through a valve. 493 V-Fins are used to tow scientific instruments at precise depths for a wide range of sampling applications, including water temperature, depth, levels of chlorophyll and plankton counts. As the 493 V-Fin is often equipped with sonar, one of its uses has been to locate objects lost at sea, such as aircraft flight recorders. In March and April of 2014, a V-Fin was used in the search for missing Malaysian Airways Flight MH370. However, the fact that the wreckage of the plane has, as of the date of this publication, still not yet been located after years of searching, reveals that the ability to precisely explore every aspect of the vast ocean bottom still remains outside the scope of our contemporary technological facility. Plenty of opportunities for discovery remain to challenge us for millennia to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1509380069754-2UXIY6NPSX0NXO8TOZUB/reiscrater8A.jpg Work - Installation View: Thaersaal, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1726456019910-R0FV1QBHGTKVOVU56TJQ/CLW+7+copy.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1726457071404-5GAG8PNP4JA3XLQ20L8T/CLW+4.jpeg Work - 2020 Vision Barnacles, Plastic, Time, Water, Metal, Plexiglass. Goggles found in the year 2020 on the beaches of Kill Devil Hills, NC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59f64a37010027fd1615acfc/1726460512376-QICJ7RJ57UE1SODA97SG/IMG_5996+2.jpeg Work - Where the Pendulum's Velocity is Zero: The Rotation of the Earth: Time, Gravity and Climate Plastic, Fishing Buoy (collected near Isbukta, Spitzbergen, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 76°46.14’N, 016°58.06’E), Metal, Paper, Charcoal, 2024 Time becomes strangely odd at the poles. Earth’s surface rotation drastically slows down. The sun no longer appears to rise in the east and set in the west, seemingly hovering in almost the same position, resulting in continuous daylight throughout the summer or the reverse in winter. Earth’s surface rotates at a faster speed at the Equator than it does at the poles. Earth is wider at the Equator, so to make a rotation in one 24-hour period, equatorial regions race nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) per hour. Near the poles, Earth rotates at a sluggish 0.00008 kilometers (0.00005 miles) per hour. A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. The regular motion of pendulums was used for timekeeping and was the world's most accurate timekeeping technology for 270 years, until the 1930s. The device was used in the seventeenth century to discover that Earth’s gravity varied slightly with location. A pendulum deployed in South America registered two and a half minutes slower per day than in Paris. “Isaac Newton in Principia Mathematica showed that this was because the Earth was not a true sphere but slightly oblate (flattened at the poles) from the effect of centrifugal force due to its rotation, causing gravity to increase with latitude.” Once set into motion, a Foucault pendulum’s plane of swing seems to rotate approximately 360° clockwise per day at the North Pole. In actuality, the plane of the swing of the pendulum is staying more or less consistent, and the Earth is rotating counter clockwise below it. The rate of rotation depends on the latitude in which the pendulum is placed, with it showing no rotation at the equator. Earth's rotation is a fundamental aspect of our climate system. Changes in the Arctic, particularly at the North Pole, due to climate change, not only underscore the rapid transformations in these regions but also highlight the interconnectedness of Earth's rotational dynamics and climate patterns. The melting of polar ice due to global warming contributes to sea level rise and affects the distribution of Earth's mass. This redistribution can cause minute changes in the Earth's rotation and the axial tilt. https://www.christinaweisner.com/new-cover-page-1 daily 1.0 2023-07-29 https://www.christinaweisner.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2024-09-15 https://www.christinaweisner.com/about daily 0.75 2024-08-25