the set time of all the stars i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
eidolon i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
pothole marker i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
the set time of all the stars ii
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
gazelem, a stone
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
signs that aren't signs (sewer grate)
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
these two facts exist
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
pothole marker ii
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
fra hrafntinnusker
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
island i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
after long ii
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
the set time of all the stars iv
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
hand to stone i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
after long i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
the set time of all the stars iii
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
one above the other, greater things above them
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
a spell to i
16” by 15”
graphite, 2018
language of stones (a lexicon)
installation view
dimensions variable
graphite, 2018
lith i
40” by 30”
graphite, 2019
lith i (detail)
40” by 30”
graphite, 2019
lith i (detail)
40” by 30”
graphite, 2019
shattered stone i (a song for sigurður björnsson)
13” by 15”
walnut ink and graphite, 2019
text:
/from a 15 km walk beneath the glacier tongues of vatnajökull, shattered stones lay everywhere: in the winter, water seeps down every fault and crevice, and, transfigured iron-hard, this liquid/
shattered stone ii (a song for sigurður björnsson)
13” by 15”
walnut ink and graphite, 2019
text:
/splits stone. if a tree falls in the forest, does it sound? and if a stone shatters on an empty plain in darkest december, smothered in snow and rimed with tracks of frost, what sound does it make?/
shattered stone ii (a song for sigurður björnsson)
13” by 15”
walnut ink and graphite, 2019
text:
/and if enough stones shattered (all at once) would their shout sound like a clap of thunder, boom of ocean-wave-slapped-shore, roar of volcano beneath the weight of glaciered peaks?/
shattered stone iv (a song for sigurður björnsson)
13” by 15”
walnut ink and graphite, 2019
text:
/would they call down an avalanche like the one that caught young sigurður björnsson and threw him upside down between ice and stone, and on the second day he was found singing psalms/
shattered stone v (a song for sigurður björnsson)
13” by 15”
walnut ink and graphite, 2019
text:
/a solo antiphony to the lithic choir which set the snow rolling down the slope? “praise the lord” for the sharp ears of rescuers and woolen undergarments, and even shattered stones, with ice over all./