PO Box 703, Black Diamond,
Alberta, Canada, T0L 0H0
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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3-FSG-2026
Acrylic on naturally fractured wood
Completed - Spring 2026
Dimensions - 2 3/4 × 4 in (base × height)
Recovery - February 2026 · near [Diamond Valley, Alberta]
Authorization - Verbal permission from leaseholder
Expedition Data - No expedition record
Landscape Context - Foothills grassland / agricultural grazing lease
Conservation Contribution - N/A (NFS)
Stewardship Context - TBA
Deadwood Bluff rises from a compact, near-circular section whose fractured face opens into a dense terrain of peaks, ledges, and channels. Ochre and rust-coloured ridges descend through green slopes toward a narrow turquoise watercourse, while small passages of blue and yellow animate the lower terrain.
Viewed around the work, the interpreted fracture gives way sharply to weathered exterior wood and an exposed growth-ring face. This contrast allows the object to shift between imagined landscape and substantially decayed deadwood. Its small scale intensifies the terrain rather than diminishing it, compressing the composition into an intimate bluff and ravine.
The mapped waypoint identifies the surrounding landscape from the nearest public road and does not disclose the precise recovery location within the Crown grazing lease.
The source fragment for Deadwood Bluff was a substantially decayed deciduous remnant recovered during firewood salvage before the current field-documentation protocol was established. No in situ recovery photograph or field record meeting the current standard survives, and the material received no borate treatment. It therefore remains within Genesis.
As the third completed Fracture-Scape, the work records an early stage in the practice’s material and finishing development. It was also the first work to receive a completed leather Certificate of Authenticity. The second numeral “2” in “2026” was accidentally double-stamped but retained as an authentic record of the practice’s developing archival process.
Available [EARLY STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS] document the fragment only after recovery, during its initial development.