This is a shadow cast of an ancient and now absent rock. Its cave-like void is the negative cast of that rock. Imagine that the sun is at its highest point during the day, that its rays fall upon this standing rock and casts a shadow behind it, running down to the ground’s surface, at the exact angle which the midday sun is above the surface of the earth and the rock. This dense black sculpture is that shadow. It is the space which that shadow occupied, behind the rock, the negative space, made solid. The cave-like void is a direct cast of the rock’s shadowed surface, exact in every minute and textured detail.

This is part of an ongoing exploration into the theme of time and transience. I am casting shadows of geological material, because the deep time of rocks wonderfully contrasts our short human life spans. However, we can observe that even the durability of rock, given enough time, weathers away and perishes. In essence, I am making the fourth dimension, three dimensional. Time is a matter of perspective.