Featuring original works created from iron-based pigments by Eriksson, Shared Magma explores how deep time, shared lifetimes, and the future entangle. Through the highly similar and rare rocks, in Cumberland, Rhode Island and Smålands Taberg, Sweden, Shared Magma tells a story about female friendship — a magnetic and deep bond in the lives of women throughout time — iron manufacturing, environmental responsibility, and deep time. 

Eriksson's original art, exhibited alongside artifacts from the John Hay Library's special collections, holdings from Swedish archives, and samples of rock, conceptualizes all of this in striking, multimedia pieces made, in part, with pigments ground from Cumberlandite in Brown's Petrology Laboratory and rust pigments made from the old industrial structures. 

The exhibit Shared Magma celebrates the intersection of Late Proterozoic geology and a contemporary friendship between Swedish artist Kajsa G. Eriksson and Robin Wheelwright Ness, Senior Library Technologist in Digital Preservation at the John Hay Library.  

Archival research and international exchange with support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.