Belly of a Rock

Belly of a Rock is an imagined place of chemical conversations at the intersection of the animate and inanimate.

Under a crusted shell, surfaces slide and scrape along lines of fissure, distended innards ooze and rocks moan as they are distorted by untold pressure. The turbulent spiralling of the molten core births rock and lifeforms which are acted upon by the drag of an oscillating magnetic field. A hybrid between rock, mollusc and technology this video sculpture responds to the first mollusc’s desire to communicate and urge to create as described by Italo Calvino in his story ‘The Spiral’. We don’t always know what we are creating.