A practice in pareidolia: from the lower right, three birds align along a diagonal line, guarding lithic eggs nestled in rounded rock hollows.
As it continues, the line catches a stone atop a stack curved like an askew comma, and then concludes at the rock capping a cairn in front of windows reflecting the morning sky.
Slow steps left cleared a sightline to this stumped stack; sudden sun rays flooded down through forked tree limbs; in lens-filtered light stones seem to float in a sea of olive green.
The dramatic, dynamic rock on top is dense, compressed and contorted by heat and pressure, pocked and smoothed by millions of years amid rocks and waves. The stone below features sweeping brush-stroke and sponge-blot textures. The tilt from lower left to upper right, accentuated by their precarious balance, creates a tension between formal lightness and material heaviness. The top rock also hovers between the large stones visible just to the left, pulled downwards by gravity, and to the right, rocks climbing up the tree.
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