The Shape of Space
Wth the artist in residence, the schoolroom in the Schoolhouse Gallery is returned to a space for study.
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Investigations into Hastings Caves continue...
How do you take pictures of space?
It's the edges of space that draw my attention
Photography by Ilona Schneider
The Story of the Rock
Mapping the story of the approx. 700 million year old dolomite rock on an 8 metre timeline. I metre = 100 million years.
In the belly of the beast – in the womb of the mother. The cave takes on immortal proportions but I know it isn’t immortal – even if it acts like it – even if it’s old beyond my comprehension. I’ve explored the arc of its existence. Its story begins with the rock – a miracle creation made of little crystals and algae laid down and compressed in shallow warm seas – the rock traveled this planet from north to south and is now heading north again – in constant transformation – cavities continually emptying and filling – and now the rock’s belly is growing crystal that is made from the stuff of its eaten-away and broken body.
Photography by Ilona Schneider