Deep Time is a work that examines distant time that lies beyond the human horizon, and the traces of the history stored by the planet over time. This deep time scale covers the whole of the planet's evolution. Our presence takes up only a minuscule part, and both the past and the future can be observed from a totally different perspective.

The glass columns take the form of ice cores and contain sediment from a variety of extreme environments in the Arctic seabed, where life is evolving in extreme environments in directions that have been unknown until now. Here you can find, among other things, underwater mud volcanoes, hydrothermal springs and methanotrophic bacteria. The artists were invited onto a scientific cruise in the Arctic with the scientists and collected a marine gravity core of sediment that dates back 12,000 years. The artists ground the sediment to powder and mixed it with molten glass. In this meeting, bubbles and colours emerged: the bubbles a direct visualisation of all the organic matter in the sediment, and the colours minerals. In this sense, the artwork becomes a re-visualisation of life from 12,000 years ago.

CAGE features archival sediments collected by the scientists on the scientific cruise EMAN7.