These large-scale photographs of semi-precious stone slabs are meditations on the complex orchestration of labor, energy, capital, and desire embedded within them. Cut, shipped, commodified, installed, and eventually discarded within the cycles of the built environment, their transformation reveals a temporal disconnection between contemporary consumption and the deep time they record.
Each image is constructed from approximately 40–60 high-resolution photographs, sutured together and presented at a 1:1 scale. I imagine these works as both an archive and a requiem for these ancient formations—created over thousands to millions of years—that contain the history of the world.