the materialities of geologic time surround us, they physically create our world. yet humans often fail to sense the continuous and relentless forces that they exude. these forces exceed human-relative scales: of time, movement, and change. by acknowledging the presence of these forces and moving in relation to my own brief passing through the forces that make the geologic, I attempt to turn towards what exceeds the human. by moving in relation to my own ephemerality I can newly sense, experience, be in awe of, and live in relation to the richness of what has come before and what will come after -us.

the polaroid has been materially impressed by the air and light of each site. the presence of a hand within the frame documents a human momentarily passing through a place and time. the digital photo frames a moment from which the human, the landscape, and the polaroid will continue to undergo distinct processess of change, change shaped by the forces specific to their material composition and surrounding environment.

Laurentide: The name of the last continental ice sheet (20,000-95,000 years ago). Pinto Gneiss: 1.7 billion year old rock found in Joshua Tree National Park. Yucca Brevifolia (Joshua Tree): a species of yucca more than 13,000 years old. Lake Lahontan: a pluvial lake that covered much of northwestern Nevada 18,000 years ago. Walker Lake and Pyramid Lake are the only remnants and now separated by 130 miles of dry land. Aha Kwahwat (Colorado River in Mojave): A 5 million year old river diverted into the Hoover dam and human-made Lake Mead. Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii (Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park): A plateau eroded into a basin over the span of 50 million years. Cambrian Manhattan Formation (Manhattan Schist) Formed around 450 million years ago when shale was pushed from the ocean floor into the Earth’s molten core during a collision between North America and the Atlantic Ocean.