ROCKS
LOCATIONS
Rocks are literally everywhere. Our planet is a rock. And so much of our lives involves rocks but we don’t think about it. Concrete, cement, and drywall are made from rock and high-rises don’t topple because they’re embedded in rock. Marble, granite counters, talc, graphite — all rock. We filter our drinking water through layers of increasingly smaller rocks and adorn our bodies with the most beautiful and sparkly rocks we can find. Still, to me, the most fascinating rocks are right where nature put them.
cover image: Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
color diptych pairs:
– Paralia Akolis (Greece) and Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
– Na Pali coast (Kauai) and Big Island (Hawaii)
– Mt. Lemmon (Arizona) and Caves of Diros (Greece)
first color set: Divorce Beach, Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
static black and white: Kauai (Hawaii)
black and white mosaic: across the US and Greece
first black and white set: Joshua Tree National Park (California)
video 1: Joshua Tree National Park (California)
video 2: Kauai (Hawaii)
second black and white set: Grand Canyon (Arizona)
final image: the moon (Earth)
When I was a little kid, my dad taught me how plate tectonics created the angled striations in the mountains we saw in Greece. In college, I had a geoscience professor who was obsessed with rocks and it rubbed off on me. Soon after, I was halfway into a six-week backpack trip with my best friend when I noticed her pack seemed heavier than before. It turned out she’d been collecting rocks. She pulled them out to show me, one by one, and we laughed until we cried about our attempt to travel light. After that trip, I started collecting rocks, too. My house is full of them. As are my photo files.