Creating Art about Soil with or without Soil: Emergence of Art As a Research Method in a Science Lab.

In this talk I confess the evolution of my lab from strictly scientific pedological assays to dominantly artwork creation as a means of answering the same research questions. As a research strategy, it was artfully very successful, but not so successful as viewed from science. I will present ideas as to how to make art science endeavors successful from any vantage.