Dan Collins
10000 Days of Salt. This image is a computer visualization of the projected amount of salt removed from the Dolores River by the Bureau of Reclamation between December 2022 and December 31, 2049. Each pillar represents one day of salt recovered from the Dolores River.
Dan Collins is a Professor of Expanded Arts within the School of Art at Arizona State University. He has served as President of the Board of the Telluride Institute (a high altitude "think and do tank" in Colorado) since 2008.
Collins’s work bridges traditional studio concerns and digital media. He is interested in the gap between the virtual space of the computer and the tangible, body-felt reality of sculptural objects.
10,000 Days of Salt is part of a larger project called Paradox Resolved, an interdisciplinary research project that seeks novel solutions for desalination and power generation in the Paradox Valley of SW Colorado.
The work Twister (above) was created between 1995 - 2012 using laser scanning and large-scale CNC milling. The work is in the collections of the International Sculpture Museum in Datong, China and the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, AZ.