Geomorphic Resonance 

2000 Portland Quarry, Dorset, funded by London Arts and Portland Quarry Sculpture Trust 

presented with composer Nick Parkin.

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Performed at Portland Quarry and also Stag Place Victoria, London.

this project continues Parkin's long term engagement with stone in site-based contexts and fasciations with geology, geomorphology and strata. At the heart of this inquiry, which manifests in sound, sculptures, site-based performance and digital media, is the need to return the human consciousness to a sense of time and place which vastly exceeds our own species and individual span, and to raise awareness of our need for an ecological and 'more-than-human' world. 

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"If you could keep going deeper, you'd finally not be a person.....you'd be a blade of grass or ultimately perhaps a stone. And if a stone could speak, poetry would be its words."

Galway Kinnell

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This work is a precursor to Parys Mountain: alchemy of Landscape and the ideas are also manifested in Parkin's CD electro-acoustic release: Geomorphic Resonance 1998, Entropolis 1999. Magmas 2001. 

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