Land and Time by Susan Narduli is a site wide installation at the Natural History Museum of Utah. This project is truly site specific physically incorporating itself into the architects design but, more importantly, incorporating itself into the mission and philosophy of the museum of demonstrating natural history and our place in it, both historically and in contemporary language. In concept, this project makes use of mapping - both literally and conceptually - to contemplate how we perceive, depend upon and understand our environment. It draws first upon what we can readily see in our immediate surroundings, and then makes visible the profound forces that underlie and shape that physical world. The exterior portion of the work is etched concrete beginning in the walkways adjacent to the upper parking lot and continues through the public plaza to the Museum entry. These etched lines and elevation numbers record the site topography before grading for the construction of the museum took place. Reflecting the history of this land - a split second in the geologic time scale - and emphasizing that our earth is in constant flux. The interior portion of the work includes painted faceted wall surfaces, and sandblasted stainless steel panels. On these facets are projected still photographs, video footage along with real-time data visualizations. The architectural planes of the museum’s canyon walls of the grand entry inspire the faceted projection plane. The projections are a continuous loop of still images and film footage of Utah's mountains and canyons. In addition colorful and abstract real-time streaming data visualizations overlay the video montage. They track the weather and seismic conditions at the mountains and canyons throughout the state and display them as they are occurring. Occasionally in the projection are floating numbers that are the GPS coordinates for the different locations that the visualizations are tracking. The polished stainless steel panels have been sandblasted with a topographic map of the surrounding Wasatch mountain range. The map captures the reflection of the viewer and places them within the landscapes projected on the wall.