

A slender cairn of polished stones rises like a quiet totem, each stratum a different memory of pressure, time, and erosion held in temporary accord. The composition’s vertical insistence—weighted by earthy ochres and deep charcoals, then relieved by pale, chalky notes—turns color into a kind of breath, alternating density and pause. Suspended against an almost clinical field of white, the stack becomes a meditation on balance as an ethic: the precarious harmony between the geologic and the human impulse to order. What reads as simple arrangement slowly reveals itself as ritual—an intimate architecture of patience, where gravity is not resisted but negotiated.