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.
PROVENANCE AND STEWARDSHIP
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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The ongoing collection preserving Fracture-Scaping’s origins and continuing exploration. Genesis includes formative experiments and fully resolved works whose provenance falls outside By Nature requirements. Each work is documented according to its history and encountered on its own artistic merits.
NATURE IS MY ARCHITECT; I AM ITS REVELATOR.
[WHAT IS GENESIS]
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Snow-Capped Expanse
[1-FSG-2024]
The founding Genesis work. Pale rock faces, colour gathered within the fracture seams, and a narrow blue waterline along the base established the first recognizable form of Fracture-Scaping.
Sandstone Spires
[2-FSG-2025]
An early study exploring how narrow vertical fractures could support the impression of distant sandstone formations. This is the only Genesis work held outside the studio collection.
Deadwood Bluff
[3-FSG-2026]
Painted peaks descend through gold and green toward a turquoise channel. The weathered exterior frames the painted fracture, preserving the contrast between deadfall timber and interpreted terrain.
Glacier Gorge
[4-FSG-2026]
Warm exterior faces frame a braided blue drainage passing through layered green and yellow terrain. The work developed early approaches to depth and water within a narrow fracture.
Tectonic Divide
[5-FSG-2026]
A modular work composed of five interconnected fragments. The pieces can be rearranged to produce changing relationships between the painted terrain and the original structural failure.
Razorspine Vista
[6-FSG-2026]
A commanding bark exterior surrounds a sharply divided interior landscape, producing one of the strongest contrasts between preserved natural material and painted interpretation in the Genesis collection.
Rugged Ravine
[7-FSG-2026]
Dense green massing rises on either side of a narrow blue channel. Layered and peeling bark appears to cradle the painted landscape while retaining its natural geometry.
Ice-Blown Sentry
[8-FSG-2026]
A narrow standing form with an irregular crown. The work records an early transition from experimental field material toward the documentation and treatment standards later formalized for FSN.
Autumn Vantage
[9-FSG-2026]
A ridged landscape rendered in autumnal greens, yellows, and rust, divided by a narrow turquoise channel. Its fracture geometry supports both distant range and close terrain.
Restless Cataract
[10-FSG-2026]
A vertical fracture carries an uninterrupted meltwater line from an elevated channel to a pool at the base, using the deep central void as the work’s primary compositional constraint.
Forested Cascade
[11-FSG-2026]
Created as the practice’s second work, its dense green forest and twin blue cascades emerged before painterly intervention began to overtake the fracture. It remained unresolved and entered Genesis only after the final decision was made to preserve it as an early record of methodological restraint.
Backwoods Saddle
[12-FSG-2026]
Two rising fracture planes form a broad saddle above dense green slopes and small blue pools. Its low, extended profile transforms the recovered form into an intimate backcountry passage.
Riftwater Passage
[13-FSG-2026]
The work remains intentionally uninterpreted across its exterior, concentrating colour entirely within the inner void. Green terrain and a narrow blue channel emerge only inside the fracture, making the concealed passage its sole interpreted landscape.
Fellwater Ridge
[14-FSG-2026]
A steep green ridge climbs through silver-grey fracture faces as a narrow cascade descends along its edge. The upright form shifts between enclosed valley and exposed mountainside as the viewer moves around it.