_crystal landscape (2021)

 

CRYSTAL LANDSCAPE (2021)

Gypsum (calcium bihydrate, CaSO4 2H2O) is a material that is largely unknown to the majority of the public and yet is very present in some territories and landscapes. Its complex nature is materialized in five different forms: the gypsum stone (aljez), the prismatic crystal (selenite), the fibrous gypsum (sericolite), the sheet gypsum (lapis specularis or espejuelo), the gypsum with lenticular aggregation (rose of the desert). In its different forms it has been used in construction, sculpture, and agriculture since ancient time