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Field Guide to Materiality: Makrolon, Brought to you by Bayer
Field Guide to Materiality: Makrolon, Brought to you by Bayer
polycarbonate
1/2" x 48" x 96"
2008

Field Guide to Materiality, examines the undisclosed and often sinister histories of power underlying the production of seemingly benign materials and searches for strategies to convey information solely through the material being investigated.

Engraved on a standard 4’ x 8’ sheet of Makrolon polycarbonate, the substrate for CD’s DVD’s, water bottles, and many other products, is an alternative timeline detailing Bayer’s long history of social and environmental injustices.