Each one a word spoken…

Each one a word spoken… is a series of paintings of stones found on the beaches of cornwall where I surf. Due to the accidental arrangement of mineral deposits, the stones have eroded over millennia to resemble faces.

Each one a word spoken… is a reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s story, The Author of Acacia Seeds…, which speculates on a future field of human study dedicated to ‘deciphering the secret language of things large and small’. Le Guin imagines rocks and stones as the ‘…wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic, poetry of the rocks, each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space.’