In the hushed winter landscapes of Muskoka and the Kawartha Highlands of Ontario, Stone Work emerges as a meditation on the enduring presence of the Canadian Shield and its fleeting concealment beneath snow. This series of photographs explores the interplay between revelation and obscurity, where the unyielding, ancient granite outcrops stand as positive forms against the enveloping negative space of snow.
The Canadian Shield, a geological cornerstone of this region, asserts its quiet dominance through jagged edges and smooth planes that pierce the winter veil. Yet, in the depth of season, snow blankets and softens these stones, rendering them partially hidden, their contours suggested rather than fully declared. This duality becomes the heartbeat of the work: the stone as the eternal, the snow as the ephemeral; the hard against the soft; the full beside the empty.
Drawing from the Chinese Taoist Yin-Yang principle, the images capture a harmonious tension—complementary forces in balance. The snow’s pristine, undulating drifts carve out absence, a luminous void that defines and elevates the stone’s solidity. Each frame is a study in contrast, where light and shadow, texture and smoothness, visibility and mystery converge to evoke a deeper contemplation of what endures and what transforms.
A statement about change and the ephemeral, these photographs capture moments in time that will never be replicated—the snow grows and shrinks daily as temperatures rise and fall, new snow falls and ultimately disappears for months at a time, only to reappear the following year. But never again in the same way.
Stone Work invites viewers to linger in this liminal space, to trace the dialogue between the immutable and the transient, and to find in the winter silence a profound reflection of nature’s perpetual cycle.
