The Inceptive Ground, texture volume 01

This work is part of the ongoing multimedia project The Inceptive Ground, texture volume 01 (2018–2027), an inquiry into perception, matter, and landscape through analog photography, video, sculpture, and drawing. The project began with a 119-day solo cycling journey along the 70th western meridian in the Southern Hemisphere, moving from the driest deserts in the north, through volcanic and mountainous regions, vast open plains and surreal mirages, to the eternal ice in the south. Seeking to unlearn constructed knowledge of place, the project asks how a landscape might be approached without calling it by its given name, how perception might begin before memory, and how presence might arise without narrative.

One Stone, 2022

This photograph presents a sculpture made from geological fragments collected across different parts of the continent. Stones differing in shape, colour, mineral composition and geological history were ground by hand into a fine, uniform dust and compressed into a single amorphous mass — one stone.

Reduced to dust and recomposed as a single body, the individual distinctions between the materials disappear. Their origins and classifications dissolve into a continuous material presence, forming a hypothetical new ground without an identifiable place or hierarchy. The work proposes a ground stripped of inherited meaning, from which unfamiliar forms of knowledge and perception might emerge.