As Sunshine Turns To Stone
As Sunshine Turns To Stone, installation view, 2024
As Sunshine Turns To Stone, scan view, 2024
As Sunshine Turns To Stone, scan view, 2024
As Sunshine Turns To Stone, scan view, 2024
As Sunshine Turns To Stone
Anthracite and stone coal lumps
Burnt engraving of carboniferous coal forests
Stainless steel support stand
Headlamp
45cm x 45cm x 145cm
A connection that serves as a reminder of the living, forested origins of today's fossil reserves, based on plants' ability to capture and transform sunlight through photosynthesis and to fossilize light and current atmospheric conditions in the form of coal. Concurrently, it invokes thoughts of transience, as these ghosts of past worlds and atmospheres are released by the ever-burning fires of industrial progression. The ostensibly mundane coal fragments emerge as a metaphorical mise en abyme — a paradoxical emblem of aesthetic allure, primordial existence, and the obscured essence of industrial production. Geological treasures revealing themselves as the mother of modernity and the true catalyst of our contemporary, progress-driven epoch. The stone, full of knowledge — knowledge of the plants and forests it consists of — echoes its radiating ecological impact, underscoring the dialectical relationship between beauty and destruction, life and its eventual entombment within the geological continuum.