Rill

2027

H6 x 18 x 4½ in

H15.5 x 40 x 11 cm

Steel, bronze, steel, hand-carved proprietary compound (marine calcite, fossilized bone, lapis lazuli, turquoise, jade, amethyst, blue quartz, green fluorite, red jasper, rose quartz, alabaster, steatite, sea glass, polymer, marble, and epoxy)

Rill extends from the wall in a continuous, irregular horizontal mass fixed to a dark steel plate. The surface is densely variegated and highly polished in places, shifting across a wide chromatic range — whites, pinks, purples, blues, greens, and golds — interwoven with reflective metallic passages of gold-bronze and silver steel, seamlessly joined through welding, and blackened rusted steel running beneath as contrast. Residual shell forms, crystalline fragments, and small cavities remain partially intact within the body, consistent with the luminescent lithoid character of prima materia. Toward the outer end the form opens into irregular branching protrusions, where spiral negative spaces of shells remain relatively recognizable.

Like the other wall-mounted works, Rill is experienced most fully from the side rather than frontally, where its full volume and internal complexity become visible.