Sacred Geometries in Stone

2026

new work in progress

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Sacred Geometries in Scattered Stardust (coming soon)

I photographed stones, drained them of color, cut them into fragments that float free.

A shadow beneath, the memory of a place. Rooted, uprooted, set into motion. Scattered stardust, gathering into patterns. Primal matter, suspended against the gravity that would gather it home. Tossed, turned, carved by the storms, by the waves washing over them. Displaced and drifting, each one holds the memory of a shore. Matter, scattered and gathered, belonging everywhere and nowhere at once.

Malachites: Sacred Geometry and Patterns of Extraction (coming soon)

Copper changes colour when it is exposed. Left to air and water it blooms at the surface, green and blue, malachite and azurite grown into each other, a stone still in the middle of becoming another stone. The stone took millennia to form. The mine erases it in a season.

I am drawn to what gets discarded. These carbonates are the signifiers of the copper, not the copper itself, and in the mines at Chagai in western Balochistan they are crushed out with the waste. They are the beautiful evidence of the copper, crushed to reach it.

The stone has been sacred for six thousand years. In Egypt malachite was ground into powder for kohl and worn on the eye, to guard the eye. Green is the colour paradise takes in cultures across the world. It is the colour of the garden, of ground that is alive. Azurite is aasmani patthar, the sky stone, a bridge between earth and the heavens. The rings in malachite look like an eye, and here an eye wards off nazar, the gaze of envy that harms what it looks at. When the two grow together, blue slowly altering into green, the pairing is read as the divine settling into the terrestrial.

Balochistan is the poorest province in Pakistan, and its ground has been read as somebody else's supply for as long as anyone has been drawing maps of it. The copper under Chagai is dug by a Canadian company and financed by the West. In February 2026 the United States named it the only holding outside its own borders in Project Vault, a strategic reserve of minerals for American manufacturing and American defense. The copper is spoken for before it is out of the ground. It will leave along a colonial railway to the sea, on the route the British laid to carry raw material out to their ports. The tracks were laid to take things away. They are being repaired to take more.

Sacred patterns radiate from a single point outward, spirals and concentric rings, one becoming many, the way malachite lays down band after band, each ring the record of a pause, an eye opening. Generative patterns that proliferate. The pit is that circle inverted: concentric benches descending, each the record of a season removed, an eye dug out of the earth and legible from orbit. Extractive patterns that deplete the land.