Pinhole Rocks is an ongoing series combining large-format pinhole photography, drawing, and geological forms. Using a 4×5 camera, I photograph glacial erratics in the Hudson Valley: large boulders carried by ice and deposited across the region. The pinhole’s long exposures and softened focus transform these massive rocks into unstable subjects — simultaneously specimen, landscape, portrait, and sign of a time beyond human comprehension.
The images begin as photographs and continue through material intervention. I print them on inkjet paper, add graphite and ink, and mount them on birch panels. Drawing challenges the assumption that a photograph is a fixed record. Marks trace, obscure, extend, and sometimes invent the rocks’ surfaces, shifting the image between evidence, interpretation, and imagination.
The project reflects an interest in geological classification: the urge to name, sort, date, and preserve matter. Erratics bear evidence of pressure, movement, erosion, and transport, linking the Hudson Valley to a vast nonhuman history. The sequence builds an informal visual taxonomy through recurring shapes, surfaces, and tonal patterns — a sustained encounter with matter: its opacity, strangeness, and capacity to hold deep time.
