i am drawn to stone across all its scales: from the pebble casually picked up on riverbank, on trail, in the yard, on the side of the road to its compilation as ranges, massifs, peaks to its use as medium for architecture, monument, sculpture. stone holds story across millennium. stone reflects permanence and emphasizes the impermanence of human existence. the energy that emanates from those notions enchants me and compels me to want to hold, behold, succumb to that power.

     my exploration and use of stone dust as an expressive medium in my work began in the desert in June 2019. of course, the beauty and immensity of desert landscape is central to its calling, but more than that is the sheer power and weight of history that the rock holds. descending into canyons, scaling walls of slick rock, the weight of sea waters that once covered those lands and the ghosts of the beings that have come and gone since is palpable. over time, journeys to different desert geographies underscored the awesome story that stone holds and will continue to accumulate long after we as individuals and as a species cease to exist. stone contains our past, present, and future.

     my interest in the color, texture, form, and materiality of stone and stone’s distinct properties as a medium from one geography to another is the foundation for a series of works under the lithic dust nomenclature. i use a range of limestones, sandstones, and quartzites in various states of pulverization to create exposures. i seek to release the stories held within the rock i begin with. pulverization releases the energy of the stories within. i provide the vehicle for the stone to express what it holds.