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Fracture-Scaping begins with naturally found wood fractures. I read their ridges, recesses, and planes as fields of landscape possibility, using chromatic interpretation to reveal a composition guided by the fracture. The fracture remains the governing form and a participant in authorship.
PRESERVED FORM, PAINTED INTERPRETATION
Interpretation remains confined to naturally fractured surfaces. Unfractured exterior wood and bark are preserved, and expressive fracture geometry is not mechanically reshaped. Minimal preparation is permitted only on the horizontal base plane when required for stable presentation.
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The practice preserves each work’s available connection to its source, while By Nature works require documented geographic provenance and chain of custody.
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2-FSG-2025
Acrylic on naturally fractured wood
Completed - Spring 2025
Dimensions - 9 3/4 × 6 1/8 in (base × height)
Acquired - Fall 2024 · near [Kimberley, British Columbia]
Authorization - Wood gifted by previous custodian
Expedition Data - No expedition record
Landscape Context - East Kootenay Interior Douglas-fir forest
Conservation Contribution - N/A (NFS)
Stewardship Context - TBA
Sandstone Spires rises through a compact grouping of narrow, jagged projections. Selective colour follows the ridges, recesses and broken planes of the timber, allowing its existing geometry to read as a remote terrain of spires, escarpments and weathered stone.
Viewed from different angles, the overlapping peaks alternately join and separate around the work’s interior passages. Its small scale intensifies this vertical terrain, while exposed wood and restrained painted passages keep the interpretation subordinate to the original fracture.
Sandstone Spires was selected from the same gifted private stock as Snow-Capped Expanse. As the second completed Fracture-Scape, it marked a transition from the initial discovery of the practice toward a more deliberate evaluation of composition, colour, material restraint and finish. The Certificate of Authenticity mat has not been produced.
The material was acquired near Kimberley in fall 2024, before the current field-documentation protocol was established. Its precise harvest date, source location and fracture event remain undocumented.
After completion, the work was gifted to the friend who originally provided the material. It is currently the only Genesis work held outside the studio archive, although it may be temporarily reunited with the collection for documentation, study or exhibition.
Available [EARLY STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS] document the fragment only after acquisition, during its initial development; they are not in situ recovery images.