Colin Lyons - Colin Lyons Art

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Projects / Operation Habbakuk

We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills (2022) We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills considers recent climate-engineering proposals through the lens of alchemy. These prints borrow cloudscapes from 16th Century engraver

Projects / We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills

The formgiving forces enthroned on earth, while the growing metals make music in the cave (2019-2023) In 2019, I excavated these “float copper” fragments from the tailing piles of North America’s oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw Peninsula, Mi

Projects / The formgiving forces enthroned on earth

The Laboratory of Everlasting Solutions (2021) The Laboratory of Everlasting Solutions is a print-based installation that proposes speculative climate prototypes that borrow from practical alchemy and contemporary geoengineering models. Much of t

Projects / The Laboratory of Everlasting Solutions

14 Plots (Spill File No. 0650898), (2019) 14 Plots (Spill File No. 0650898) is a site-specific installation which memorializes the environmental legacy of a brownfield site at 62-64 Scio Street in Rochester, NY. On August 31, 2006, an oil lea

Projects / 14 Plots (Spill File No. 0650898)

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Projects / The Deep Cut Restoration Laboratory

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Projects / Time Machine for Abandoned Futures (Dawson City, YT)

Projects / Contingency Plan

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Projects / New Monuments / Old Foundations

Projects / Time Machine for Abandoned Futures

Projects / The Conservator

Projects / Automatic Ruins

Projects / A Modern Cult of Monuments

Projects / Fitzgerald Rig

Projects / Oceanex Avalon

Projects / Boom Town