STONE WORKS /  A series of drawings of stone made from stone & lichen

Made with ink and a pigment we created from wolf lichen and pulverized volcanic stone, the series was created alongside a number of other works centering on alternative understandings of time and temporal measurement. Anthropologist Anna Tsing writes: “Progress is a forward march, drawing other kinds of time into its rhythms. Without that driving beat, we might notice other temporal patterns. Each living thing remakes the world through seasonal pulses of growth, lifetime reproductive patterns, and geographies of expansion.” Stones are living things that connect us to the past—pasts that are shallow and ones that are deep. These drawings are mantras, reminders, and material echoes that connect us to a place and to a longer, wetter, grainier, slower kind of clock.