Model: Re-excavating A Section Of The Site: Testing The Soil Remediation Process

Can the soil remediation process be a way to make sense of the cultural artifacts hidden within the toxic soil? I believe it can. Soil washing can be an alternative form for removing the earth around the hidden artifacts. By running water continuously over the ground, solid earth turns into sludge, the landscape begins to move, and artifacts formerly underground become distinct materials punctuating the fluid wetland around it. As the next stages of the soil remediation process come into play - screening the soil for large objects and then introducing bacteria to "bio-remediate" the carcinogens contaminating the sludge - the foundations of former factories are used for situating the mechanics used to proceed with the remediation process.

I have begun to make a model of this process, by taking the area where the Glenora Mill foundation have been excavated on the Pointe-des-Seigneurs. This documented excavation site is the only ones I have found, and it clearly show the scale and details of the artifacts. In my model they are still undergroud, awaiting to be releaved by soil washing.