Surface Records, 2025
archival pigment prints
variable size
archival pigment prints
variable size
The rock surfaces along the coast of Rockport, Maine bear the marks of forces operating at vastly different timescales. Water carved circular forms over millions of years. Industrial machinery cut precise diagonal lines. A human hand left a trace in spray paint — a gesture that represents, in geological terms, less than a breath. Duration made visible.
The rock itself is ancient beyond comprehension — formed from elements forged in dying stars billions of years ago, slowly shaped by the forces of the Earth. Each photograph collapses these durations into a single image — the billions of years of the rock, the decades of industrial use, the seconds of human mark-making, and the lifespan of the digital camera used to make the photographs, a device whose components are derived from the same silicon compounds as the surfaces it was pointed at. Every thing, as Robert Frost wrote, is all event. These images are records of events in space-time — absolute locations where duration becomes visible all at once.