Stones /kamni

The “stones” are, in fact, portrait drawings—controlled gestural drawings combined with the concepts of land art and/or environmental art.

Using photography, I explored abstract images of imagined faces created with wet pastel strokes on cotton fabric.
Pastel lines or cracks in the stones are complemented by living plants such as thyme, chamomile, and watercress.
Chlorophyll takes the place of color, form, or the moss-covered surfaces of the stones.

The floor-based arrangement of portraits becomes a meditative, monumental composition “in space and time” that,
combined with the growing plants, creates a “space for reflection.”

Legends say that sinful souls were trapped inside stones so they could never commit a sin again.
Other stories speak of “earth elementals,” or the souls of stones.

In the portrait of the poet and the young man, the gestural drawing intertwines with living plants;
these plants have their own temporal existence, requiring light and water to bring a change—a change that tells stories.