Field Notes: May 30, 2026 Location: former clay pit near Laa an der Thaya Encounter Summary: Surface, concealing structure... The former clay pit near Laa is considered the type locality of the Laa Formation. Yet arriving there feels strangely paradoxical. The pit is no longer a pit. Water has filled the excavation; the exposed walls that once revealed the sediments are hidden beneath a lake. The reference remains, while the exposure has disappeared. We followed a narrow path

Return to the Laa Formation near Mailberg, examining seasonal shifts from mud to dust, Studio continuation of fieldwork, exploring sediment, salt crystallization, and process-based transformations across scales.

Field Notes: April 9, 2026 Location: Approximate margin of the Iván Canyon, east of Laa an der Thaya Encounter Summary: We arrived at a place defined almost entirely by inference. A few kilometers east of the former clay pit at Laa, the landscape remained quiet—fields, gentle slopes, no visible rupture. And yet, beneath this surface, a canyon persists. Based on distance and direction, we approximated the position: several kilometers east of the former clay pit at Laa, approac

Field Notes: February 13, 2026 Location: Quarry south of Buchberg summit, Weinviertel Encounter Summary: The approach began in mud before it became geology. Recent rain and thaw had dissolved the ground into a thick, adhesive mass, each step accumulating weight. The path led through a fenced enclosure—Mufflons somewhere unseen, the suggestion of wild boar—over a narrow crossing and onto a forest track that no longer held its form. The substrate announced itself immediately: c

Fieldnotes III. Alter Steinbruch Ernstbrunn Kalk.