ARTIST STATEMENT

How can we perceive the expansive timescales of our geologic past when its very nature equates to eternal change and progression, nearly incomprehensible in our organic lifetimes?

My recent work is a meditation on the physical essence of time and creation. By constructing snapshots of immensely vast timescales and infinitesimally brief moments I am presenting the viewer with the hidden stories and unseen world below their very own feet. While exploring the growth structures and stages of metamorphosis within a stones life cycle I have also become drawn to the human manipulation of it and how information can be documented and stored within.

This has led to another branch of research into ancient Irish tombs and petroglyphs. Scattered across the landscape these stone anomalies have always struck me as an enigma, the structures and markings acting as conduits to unknown narratives. By investigating our Earth's material origins, properties and application in our manmade world I am initiating a discussion concerning our geological history and our human and social interaction with it.