A piece by piece accumulation through repetition in process where salvaged bits of wood, remnants of projects past, are each treated with faceted edges like crystals and consolidated into a wood rock formation. This new nature is formed through routine scavenging from my own studio’s waste resource where material doesn’t disappear but is reshaped into a new tale. I’m partially motivated by interest in a rock collection I inherited from my father, and in thinking about why he was particularly fascinated with these formations I’ve come to find my own appreciation. Rocks are markers of time, through what they reveal about how they are made, when, and from what. These mundane objects can even be billions of years old.
Included in The Shape of Time, a solo-exhibition at Municipal Bonds, 2021.
Wood, various species (oak, fir, walnut, beech, maple, ash, birch, elm)