LANDSCAPE / ROUGH MATERIAL

«IN A SHORT TIME, THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN… APPEAR LIKE A BODY OF LIQUID FIRE, EXTENDING ITSELF IN EVERY DIRECTION...»

«ASH... CAME DOWN SLY AND SNEAKY. IT TRAVELLED FASTER THAN A CAR... THE PIECES OF FIRE WERE SMALL AND IT WAS THERE BEFORE THE PLACE TURNED BLACK. WAS GREY AND BLACK, ONE MIGHTY CLOUD... NO HEAR A THING BEFORE I SAW IT [...] BLACK LIKE BLACK CLOTH... SMELT STRONG, LIKE LIGHTING MATCHES SMELL.»

«That additive and subtractive topography-forming processes are so commensurate is one of Earth’s extraordinary attributes. The landscape of other rocky planets and moons look alien precisely because these worlds lack such a balance in the rates of creative and destructive topographic agents.[…]»

« THEY CHANGED SHAPE CONTINUALLY AND FANTASTICALLY ON THE WAY TO THEIR ULTIMATE TRANSFORMATION INTO WATER. THE LAGOON DIDN'T BUDGE, FROZEN ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM, ITS INLET FULL OF STILL UNTOUCHED SNOW BETWEEN BLACK ROCKS. TOOTI SAID SOMETHING ABOUT HOW IT'S ALL VERY WELL TO GO ALL TECHNICOLOR NINETEEN TIMES A DAY, BUT THE PUREST AND MOST HONOURABLE COLOURS ARE STILL BLACK AND WHITE. »

LANDSCAPE / ROUGH MATERIAL / PITCH BLACK . FLOATING / MIXED-MEDIA .2025

«We are literally changing the configuration of the continents and remaking the world map. But does this matter on a planet that has seen so many geographies, constantly erasing old worlds and replacing them with new ones? It doesn’t to the Earth itself, which will eventually remodel everything according to its own preferences, either gradually or catastrophically. Over human timescale, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us.[…]»