Stacks, Spires, Strata
Flutter shell wings. Rock Stacks. They stand by an eroded stack of rocks, which formed an impenetrable wall. A streak of mineral deposits veined towards dust and grounded material at its base. As if the ages had wept from fissures to return in a restful soil. Standing there, it is hard to know if she waited for them, or if they waited for her to emerge. Millions of years she had bound an elbow, a bone, nail, flesh, and hair into liquid rock, and they waited the bleeding. Did she summon them to watch, to extract, to suck the subterranean gems of light, wanting only to return to light of sun, and burn. Plants from rocks devour rock, give birth to mobile creatures, then shaped rock and made the world. Why ascend to the sky and not bury deep in her womb? At rock bottom, the monument imago emerges—a strange strata strategy.
Most drawings are 2022, ink and mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 inches approximately.
Spire Row and Strata I, 2017, ink and graphite on paper, 11 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches.
Spire Row and Strata II, 2019, ink and graphite on paper, 11 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches.
Spire Row and Strata III, 2019, ink and graphite on paper, 11 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires I, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires II, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires III, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires IV, 2022, ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires V, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires VI, 2022, ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires VII, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires VIII, 2022, ink and graphite on paper, 8 ¼ x 5 ⅜ inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires IX, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires X, 2022, ink and color pencil on paper, 11 ⅝ x 8 ½ inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XI (Cluster Cloud), 2022, ink and color pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XII (Spooky Action at a Distance), 2022, ink on paper, 11 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XIII, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XIV, 2022, ink on paper, 11 x 8 ¼ inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XV, 2022, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XVI, 2023, ink and color pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XVII, 2023, ink on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
Rock Stacks and Spires XVIII, 2023, ink and graphite on paper, 11 ½ x 8 inches.
After the Woods centers on the reunion of a young man and woman after a separation of 1000 years. Willed into existence by a conscious landscape that has rediscovered the code embedded within it, the man becomes a Knight adorned in armor while the woman is transformed into a Princess who over time evolves into a spaceship. While her metamorphosis represents the advancement of artificial intelligence his transformation triggers the evolution and expansion of the natural landscape. The Knight’s quest for the Princess leads him towards a realization and releasing code, disseminating consciousness like a form of alchemy throughout his immediate environment. The forest grows and becomes populated by fantastical creatures creating a new magical eco-system through which technology and nature are combined.