Micro & Macro, two initial stone works, subsequently dismantled, reconfigured and expanded, may be interpreted as plays on the interdynamics of the collective, each stone resting softly on the next for support and stability, so for that any to be removed risks partial collapse. In this I see the strength, sense of belonging and protection we feel in community, in opposition to individualism without balance.

 

The stones have a certain form, almost a teardrop, a soft organic shape that needed no manipulation to be inherently beautiful. In these configurations, they draw me back into to those inerlocking mountain landscapes of my youthful imagination. In addition to the teardrop shape, their surface tends to an ethereal white even if the core of the stones is by nature grey. The white coating is the calcium that over hundreds and thousands of years has steadily dissolved, leaving a fragile, almost velvety surface boundary.​

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The more I looked for these stones, I began to notice that the tear drop shape came in all sizes, tiny, small, heavy and really very heavy. In this I found an echo in Mandelbrot’s fractals, in the vastness of nature in which at any given level of magnification, we discover repetition upon repetition, an infinity, universes stacked upon universes, codes within codes. Even if only for a moment, I lose myself in these assemblies, inhabit their scale, their plane.​

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