On duration, materiality, and the limits of seeing

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Inorganic matter lies outside our realm of experience. Rock reveals an autonomous presence in planes, edges, and transitions. Its forms arise through erosion. Surface becomes event, darkness creates tension.

What escapes our understanding becomes a projection surface—especially where perception recognizes abstract beauty. When familiar reference points are removed from the images, landscape and scale dissolve. What remains are states of pure materiality.

Traces of organic life appear as fleeting deposits on a duration that exceeds human measure. Against the geological time of rock, they are brief contacts. Within this relation, our own present shrinks to a moment.

I am interested in the instant when perception recognizes its own limits—when seeing eludes explanation and the image is not interpreted, but endured.