Meteorites Fall 2022-ongoing

Graphite rubbings on torn paper over rock aluminium backing

each component 20 x 24 cm

Graphite series

I am often attracted to landscapes that have troubled histories and natural disasters. In this work, the repeated action of heavy rubbing over an organic form in graphite leaves a bodily trace where the skin of the paper lifts off the flat plane. In multiples of repeated action making a grid that is bodily in scale the viewer is immersed in an alternate cosmology of stars or meteorites. Graphite is also a mineral that occurs in meteorites alongside troilite and silicate, and the action of rubbing tearing through the paper’s surface references the destructive effects of comets and asteroids or other geological phenomena that has made craters in the earth.