Wilson Cycle is a series of digital collages developed from photographic studies of Icelandic ice and rock formations. The title refers to tectonic processes of formation and transformation and links the works to geological movement, glacial change, and long-term material evolution. The series begins with close observation of structures in which pressure, fracture, erosion, and sedimentation become visible at the surface and can be translated into image.
Wilson Cycle and geological fragments
The works translate these environmental structures into a condensed image language. Photographic fragments are isolated, recombined, and layered into compositions shaped by compression, sedimentation, and spatial tension. Ice, rock, and mineral traces remain legible, while the images move away from documentation and towards a concentrated visual order. In this process, the material and textural logic of my larger installations shifts into a two-dimensional surface.
The Iceland fragments focus on formations in which tectonic and glacial processes can be perceived with particular clarity. Cracks, strata, displacement, and erosion become active compositional elements. Through digital collage, these traces are reorganised into images that carry density, instability, and structural pressure. Each work develops its own rhythm and scale, while the series holds together a shared attention to matter, transformation, and duration.
Surface, time, and image
These works engage with the relation between human time and geological time, and with the fragile desire for permanence in the face of planetary transformation. Surface, fracture, layering, and erosion become visual carriers of memory, instability, and structural change. Across the series, Wilson Cycle opens a two-dimensional field in which observation, image construction, and geological process remain closely connected.
Medium
Pigment Ink on Hadern
Iceland Fragments
series of 6, 56 x 56 cm each
Exhibited at
Panorama, Kunstverein Akku, Uster, Switzerland
Quiddje Garn, Kunstverein Haus 8, Kiel, Germany
