The Three King
Mixed media, Liquid emulsion, paper, marble, stone, wood, clay, 2024
"The Three Kings" is a new series I created during my residency at Art Hub Studios. Building on my earlier work "A Stone within a Mountain, a Mountain within a Stone", this series delves deeper into themes of time, materiality, and slowness. I experimented with alternative printing techniques, such as liquid light, and I created my own photographic paper. I reflected on the passage of time, both through the process of working in the darkroom and by gathering rocks from various landscapes across Britain.
These landscapes, which once were oceans teeming with life, have transformed into vast fields of rock formations, their dramatic shapes standing as testaments to the slow but powerful forces of time and nature. As I stood among these formations, I couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of awe at the vastness of the geological timescale. It made me question my own place in this continuum of existence. Will I, too, become rock one day? Is everything destined to return to stone, the earth's raw material itself? Or were we in once part of the sediments beneath our feet? These questions have lingered with me.
In this context, rocks became more than just objects of admiration or subjects for my photography. They became symbols of endurance and transformation, representing the idea that time constantly shapes everything around us - and within us. Everything becomes a blur, the lines between organic and inorganic, between living and nonliving matter - reminding me that all is constantly moving, shifting and evolving.