Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – piece with scientific objects on display at the Ladd – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail, stone picked up from bus stop at the Ladd, trapped inside glass sphere with bisecting crack – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail, stone picked up from bus stop at the Ladd, trapped inside glass sphere with bisecting crack – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail, stone picked up from bus stop at the Ladd, trapped inside glass sphere with bisecting crack – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail, stone picked up from bus stop at the Ladd, trapped inside glass sphere with bisecting crack – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail showing sliced glass sphere with Ladd planetary model – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail showing sliced glass sphere with Ladd planetary model – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Sean Salstrom – Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous – detail, rock trapped in it's own bubble trapped in a glass sphere – variable dimensions – Exhibited at Ladd Observatory.
Trophies: Differentiation, Zenolithic, and Igneous
Sean Salstrom
2020
Blown glass, rocks, bubbles
variable dimensions

Glass objects were made with embedded materials collected from the surrounding area of the Ladd Observatory. The title refers to terms from a Meteorite Glossary. The trophy-like shapes also loosely allude to astronomical and planetary models in the observatory.

This artwork was exhibited at the