object description

"Describe your object’s materiality (e.g., size, weight, design, style, and decoration) and mode of production in the most precise language possible. What is your object made of? How was it made? List and describe relevant production methods. When was it made? Where was it made? How much did your object cost when it was made? How much did it cost to make your object?"

My object is immense in size. It is over four thousand eight hundred and thirty kilometers long, crosses two countries, and the tallest point of it being four thousand four hundred and one meters above sea level. Large dramatic collisions of tectonic plates and the slow melting and refreezing of glaciers have helped produce my object. From a distance, parts of my object have been described as looking like a woman's back, two lions, two sisters, teeth, a wall, the heavens. Parts of my object are covered in a green carpeting of coniferous trees, other parts are black and grey stone, while others still are the brown remnants of land slides where part of its face has slipped away. Most famously, my object is known for the glaciers resting in its uppermost regions. No one really agrees on when my object was made, but the range 80 to 55 million years ago crops up in discussion. It was made all between the Laird River in BC and the Rio Grande in New Mexico. When it was made, no people were around to evaluate it. When people discovered it, it's cost still couldn't be defined outside of the cost of life for endless generations, as it became sustenance and people, their children, their grandchildren, their children's grandchildren and so on. I also can't comment on what it cost to make the object, I imagine it cost millions of organisms their lives in the earthquakes that shifted the plates and the ice ages that spurred the glacial movement. I suppose my object, the Rocky Mountain Range, raises some interesting questions about production and initial cost.