Calligraphy of the Earth

6 works

Landscape as writing: glacial streams draw pale lines through volcanic rock; sediments lay golden paths across a black ground. Water, erosion and time have drawn these forms. Calligraphy of the Earth brings together six works: lines, marks and the spaces between.

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New water lines over old sediment layers form an abstract landscape

Palimpsest

A landscape written over: new watercourses cross old sediment layers, a parchment of geological time.

Bright streams branch out over dark volcanic ash

Ink Lines

Pale streams trace an extensive branching network across dark volcanic ash.

Golden sediment and silver streams form parallel lines of erosion.

Two Alphabets

Golden sediment and silver streams write the same text in parallel, in different languages of erosion.

Winding river through dark rock with green banks

Marginalia

A winding river draws its line through dark rock. Green areas lie like marginal notes along its course.

Branching streams fan out over sediment and rock.

Braided Script

Branching streams fan out like braided script across sediment and rock.

Golden sediment lines on a dark background in the Icelandic highlands

Golden Letters

Sediments settle like gilded writing on a dark ground. The earth dictates its own chronicle.