RE-CRYSTALLIZATIONS OF BYGONE LANDSCAPES

This body of work examines discarded and forgotten geological specimens in the abandoned quarry district of Mt. Apatite in Auburn ME. As humans living in a material world, we seize specific specimens from the bedrock and leave behind remnants of an exhausted site, only to move on to another location. These photograms act as a catalyst to bring to light the slow chemical and geological transformations that we abruptly interrupt during mining activities. The resulting images of the Lumen process has allowed me to reflect deeply on this dependency of the extraction of resources for human capitalist and industrial progression, which has thus sabotaged the natural course of planetary evolution.

2018