Fluidity

A selection of images shown at the Bohemia Café in Barrie, Ontario, September 2012

Artists Statement

I have been photographing rock formations for a long time and continue to be humbled them. Perhaps it is the time scale that is recorded in the inner and outer structure. The oldest rocks in the Canadian Shield are estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, that’s 4,500 million years, a time span that is incomprehensible, and is some of the oldest rock on the planet.

While to us rocks do not seem to change, this is an illusion. If it were possible to create a time lapse video with each frame being recorded every million years or so, we would see that rock formations are as fluid as any liquid. The continual trans-formative processes at work include wind, water, glaciation, volcanism, uplift and subduction. These occur over enormous spans of time and what we see is a recording of this history, as much as aging records the history of life forms. As with biological life, rocks are inevitably moving toward disintegration, becoming sand and dust, only to be recycled into other types of rock and soil as part of the ongoing cycle of change.

I find as much wonder in the rock formations I photograph as I do in looking at the stars, and remember that the time scale of both is somewhat the same. I take comfort in knowing that these rocks will be here long after I or indeed life on the planet are gone.

As you look at these images, I hope you too will remember that over time, everything changes and is fluid no matter how solid it may seem.

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