Ageless Foundations: Rocks - January 2022

Our lifespans are minuscule compared to the natural elements that surround us. The undistinguished pebble you pick up may be 4 billion years old.  

A hard, heavy natural thing; used to build a house, support a bridge, protect a clan, slow the waters, or a mystical object containing supernatural power. A natural object that has been used to express dominance, memorialize the dead, or as a marker of time. 

My photographs document this natural geologic raw material found throughout the world, and how these materials have been chosen and manipulated. Rocks have been used for the most basic of needs, or have been used as expressions of love and loss. 

A rock can be  ‘’cheap as dirt,’’ or worth a fortune. A rock can lie unmoved for millennia, be exposed violently by mining or erosion and when found become a treasure. 

I make photographs of rocks to show how humans have captured the strength of this natural resource. Building blocks of culture and society using billion year old materials that give the impression that they will never be moved, will never fall, will never turn to dust.

 Confession: I am a ‘rock hound’ with a problem; always thinking: ‘’A well placed rock may be the solution to this…’’