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The Grid Substrate, 2015, oil on wood, 18.5″ x 30″

This media file is attached to: Bruce Conkle

Abstract painting of landscape with blue volcano on right side, with orange, green, and white smoke rising out of it; a black sky with a linear grid is in the background, an orange river of lava in the foreground, three brown and green cubes are on the left side of the canvas.

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A shovel is suspended from the ceiling with a thermoelectric cooler attached to the underside of the blade and a ball of ice on the top side of the blade. A wire goes from the cooler to the ceiling, a large stone sits on the floor behind the shovel, a painting and a table are at the wall in the background.

Shovel Mountain (Forecasting), 2016-2018, shovel, thermoelectric cooler, dirt, moss, ice, heatsink, Pepto Bismol, stone

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