Nitrogen and other texts.

MARC GANZGLASS

show extended through January

Press Release

 

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Our house, our neighbor’s house, our landlord’s house
The railings outside each of our apartment buildings

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Zun
A Chinese ritual vessel from the 13th century BCE advertised in the NY Observer
Galvanizing
Zinc plating, the word galvanizing

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Nitrogen
Video shot at Stanford University. The oscilloscope and hologram footage are from the basement of the physics building. Audio by James Jarzyniecki.

 

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Alphabet
Photomicrograph from oxford english dictionary
Kennedy
Coin shrinking, or coin ‘crushing’, uses a million volts to overload a circuit, causing the current to discharge along the curcumference of the coin and displace the metal inside. Crushed kennedy half-dollar.

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Guns of Zeljezara
Graffiti found during a field trip to a defunct steel factory in Croatia. It’s the Clash lyrics to The Guns of Brixton except with the name of the factory town, Zeljezara.

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Galvanzing
Zinc plating, a fireplace

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Small Cents
A penny that jumped its rank: the 1955 double die error.

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Wiper
A blanket used in offset printing the US one dollar bill.

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Linotype / Reamur
A conversation about temperature scale transcribed on a Linotype machine.

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Setting Up Balance
Instructions found in the drawer of an old scale behind a vocational high school.

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Black Ingots
Brass Ingots plated black.

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Broken Jaw
The top half of a pipe-wrench was broken clean off.
Shear Pin
Shear pins are designed to fail before the machine breaks and I found this one next to the train tracks in New Jersey.

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Bluebird
A print pulled off a school bus mudflap

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Building #3 (Plate and Print)
A rendering for a new condo being put up in our neighborhood etched onto a brass plate, which was used to make the print.

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Zun

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Galvanizing
Zinc Plating, a pack of rabbits