Scroll Saw Scraps and Diagrams

Another little section of the installation is done!



These pieces are made from scroll saw scraps from the Quigley Landfill. The scroll saw pieces will probably be put where the Yukon and Klondike rivers converge south of town (in the diorama). That area is full of little water roundabouts, ponds, and rapids. I wasn't planning on making anything for that area, but the materials suggested that landscape, and the materials are the boss.

The installation is starting to take the shape of a giant, 3D diagram of Dawson City's 4 (1/2?) historical dumps. Each dump will have a schematic diagram over which the miniature diorama is laid so that when the pieces are taken away there will be something left behind.

Different reports and surveys have different types of diagrams. The Quigley diorama will be based on a cross-section of the earth, since they are concerned with leeching and with soil components. The Callison will be an areal diagram, since the only diagrams available are for locating the piezs (wells dug specially to test water). The Dome road landfill is still undecided. And since the docks at the north dump and the slough are based on oral descriptions, they will probably just have their names inscribed underneath them.