This artwork unfolded through daily hikes on landscapes disturbed by mining activities in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Amidst these disrupted terrains, I became attuned to the presence of countless stones—silent witnesses to geological upheavals, displaced and relegated as mere debris in the architecture of extraction.
Each day, over the course of a week, I wandered among these "discarded" rocks, thinking about their timeless existence and the narratives etched in their mineral veins. I wove speculative tales of nonhuman encounters—stories of ancient dialogues spanning epochs, where rocks transcended their perceived inertness to embody witnesses of immemorial interconnections.
With a tattoo machine gun and a pilot marker, I inscribed these stories onto the stone surfaces, bridging transient human expression with the permanence of geological matter. After carving these narratives, I returned each stone to the exact place from which it was taken, allowing it to resume its quiet vigil, now bearing imprints of temporal crossings between human and nonhuman histories.
