Shifting Geologies

In Shifting Geologies, I develop a practice within the field of speculative geology, a pseudoscientific approach in which I create events that simulate ongoing geological formations. The project unfolds through ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations that expand, transform, and reconfigure over time.

The “stones” are manually produced using principles of petrology, through variations in pressure, temperature, and the chemical composition of the environment. The samples combine human-altered materials — such as plastics, cement, and electronic waste — with natural elements like sand, soil, and shells.

I understand soil elements — here with particular focus on stones — as sensitive media, capable of translating relationships and processes of adaptation and material transmutation, and as living entities and portals, able to establish non-linear channels of communication between human and non-human ecologies.