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 observations at an undocumented saline site near Zwingendorf, focusing on evaporite formation, halophytic vegetation, and cracked sediment surfaces.

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: March, 2026 Location: Studio / Post-field observations Encounter Summary: The field continued in the studio, though the scale shifted and the ground became a table. The collected fragments—stones, silts, compacted clays—were laid out and sorted, not by taxonomy but by relation. Fine particles gathered into loose constellations, their distribution resembling a form of writing: granular, discontinuous, unreadable yet deliberate. I rolled spheres from the different

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

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Fieldnotes III. Alter Steinbruch Ernstbrunn Kalk.

Field Notes: December 8 & 20, 2025 Location: Mailberg vicinity; West of Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria, Austria Encounter Summary: Along the roadside cut west of Mailberg, I unfolded the layers of the Laa-Formation like a loaf of ancient, sedimentary bread. The sand-dominated strata split apart along their subtle, parallel planes, revealing alternating seams of silt and fine clay. Some layers broke in blocky, almost modular segments, as if the earth itself had pressed pause and co

Field Notes: December 20, 2025 Location: Mailberg vicinity, Lower Austria The Laa-Formation revealed itself today in the quiet act of rolling. I pressed handfuls of the mixed sand-and-silt layers, shaping them into small, dense spheres that held together with surprising cohesion. Some were smooth and firm, others softer, tending toward collapse under the gentlest touch. Each ball was a miniature record of the river and storm currents that once transported these grains, a tact