Traces of Deep Time
Traces of Deep Time is a series of original prints that explore the vast temporal landscapes embedded within stone. Created using collagraphy, drypoint etching, or a combination of both techniques, the works harness the tactile potential of printmaking to reflect the layered processes of geological transformation—compression, erosion, and uplift.
With an abstract approach, the series draws on the form and texture of rock and mountain as living archives—shaped not in years or centuries, but in eons. The textural surfaces and incised lines echo the physical memory of Earth's strata, inviting viewers to contemplate not only the immensity of time but also the inherent beauty of form.
The visual language also offers a meditation on solidity and impermanence—on the paradox of enduring forms shaped by perpetual movement. In a sense these prints are not depictions of stone, but responses to its memory: the residual presence of pressures and forces beyond human comprehension.
As Robert Macfarlane writes in Mountains of the Mind:
“Contemplating the immensities of deep time ... is both exquisite and horrifying, the total collapse of your present, compacted to nothingness by the pressures of pasts and futures too extensive to envisage... Yet there is something curiously exhilarating about the contemplation of deep time. True, you learn yourself to be a blip in the larger projects of the universe. But you are also rewarded with the realisation that you do exist – as unlikely as it may seem, you do exist.”
