A cylinder composed of gypsum and olive waste- produced in the industrial extraction of olive oil and sold as an eco-heating product- mimics the form of a drill-core soil sample. In the 1970s, geologists extracted drill cores from the mediterranean sea bed containing gypsum and other salts minerals which are formed when salt water evaporates, proving that the Mediterranean had at one time evaporated and that the Mediterranean Basin had once been connected by land. Litwittz’s drill core brings together two materials which connect the Mediterranean Basin- the olive tree stands found around growing throughout the entire basin, and the gypsum in the earth, now below water, which once physically connected it by land.