Project Description

Sensitive Stones is an ongoing series of sculptures that uses reclaimed materials, second-hand textiles, plastic waste, stone fragments, and organic remnants to speculate on future geological forms. The works propose an imagined class of stones in which discarded clothing and synthetic debris become part of an emerging rock record. Bringing the brief cycles of consumption into contact with geological time, the series considers what the materials we discard might preserve of the lives, desires, and systems that produced them.

Central to the work is a fragile truce between materials. Textiles, plastics, minerals, and organic matter come together in forms that complicate distinctions between the manufactured and the geological. Their assembly suggests a landscape in which human production has become embedded within the substances of the earth. Contamination becomes both a material condition and a way of thinking about relationships that cannot be neatly separated.

The title introduces sensitivity into the apparent solidity of stone. It invites attention to the histories materials carry, the sensations they provoke, and their capacity to affect one another through contact and proximity. Within these sculptures, the stone becomes a speculative body: an accumulation of encounters whose composition holds traces of use, abandonment, and transformation. Questions of material vibration and energetic exchange remain open to intuitive exploration.

Developing through continued gathering and experimentation, Sensitive Stones proposes provisional taxonomies for these uncertain forms. The sculptures ask how future rock records might register the excesses of the present, and what kinds of fossils could emerge from the meeting of discarded garments, plastic, and land. Across the series, waste becomes an unsettled inheritance, carrying the consequences of contemporary consumption into futures beyond its intended use.