Stone Witness

Faint rust-colored lines trace the shale’s surface, revealed by precise measurement as cyclical iron deposits. Thicker bands mark moments when sediment flowed more heavily, echoing environmental rhythms from epochs prior to observation. These patterns repeat across each layer of stone—a chronicle built over vast time, its narrative shifting with every change in perspective and scale. Though seemingly fixed, the record whispers of both enduring form and constant drift, a quiet tension between what was laid down and how it is now received.