Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Spread from the book, highlighting the conceptual level of creative destruction through a cropped
satellite image (left), the cropped volcano database (center) and a fold-out legend (right).
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust explores the paradox of creative destruction in Earth’s calamitous yet regenerating and rejuvenating geophysical processes – volcanism.
Based upon the Smithsonian Institution’s main database of active volcanoes around the world, the broad variety of geographic as well as visual representations of this genuinely disastrous force are explored in an ever-changing but repeating framework of satellite data, topographic maps, 3D elevation models and tabulations.
As a conceptual disruption and visual reference to contour lines, spreads with white ink on black paper – an alphabetical list of all active volcanoes at this time – break the layout on a regular basis.
Tabular data: Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian Institution)
Satellite data: NASA Landsat Program
Format: 329mm × 234mm
Scope: 150 pages
Paper: Metapher Rough (120g), Gmund Colors Matt (135g), Papyrus Rainbow Grey (270g)
Linen: Peyer Duchesse Neonorange
Made as Bachelor’s Thesis at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
Cover, spine and back.
True to scale photographic, cartographic and topographic overview of the individual volcano, its type, climate zone and location feature as well as short geological summary.
List of all volcano specific eruptions by date (start/stop), certainty, measure of explosiveness (VEI = volcanic explosivity index), evidence as well as visual sequence of the latest eruption.
True to scale, multi perspective terrain overview on height, width and overall surrounding.
Information on name, number, type, country, region, subregion, longitude / latitude, elevation in m,
date of eruption, evidence, as well as the population in various radii of all 1512 volcanoes.
A set of three infographics, examining a country's volcanic activity by quantity and type as well as its population at risk in relation to a) the total population of the continent and b) within various radii around the indvidual volcanoes.
