Alchemy of Rocks

This project began back in the early ...... the work explores temporal and material layers,  past and present evident in the folds, crevices, fissures, and strata of the land. Rocks are often overlooked. They are places where we walk, extract, mine, and chisel away. Less common is the act of getting to know rocks as if they are our friends.  

The body of work shown at North Wall and The Brew House Gallery is a tribute to my time spent in Pembrokeshire: to quiet responses to the land, to the sound of the sea against the rocks, to the magic of pores, splits, and rifts. To where I dream of falling through fissures, back, back, back in time, beyond worlds where human time dissolves into the timeless and unimaginable.

• sitting with rocks
• being with rock as companion
• speaking to rocks
• listening to rocks
• sensing rocks
• touching rocks

This work is an ethical gesture - an acknowledgment of deep time, embodied terrain, and the agency of landscape. Working directly with the physical geography of the ground, over time, has become a way of attuning to geological form, deep time, and the material presence of the earth beneath our feet.