Basalt Recalibration
Limestone powder grits between fingertips, settling into the deep grooves of a buried relief carving. This fossilized face mirrors an ancient self, eyes staring back with the heavy weight of coarse basalt grains compressed within lead. Though early disappointments once felt like terminal breaks in the line of being, they appear now as mere textures on a much larger surface. The gaze remains unchanged by time, suggesting that identity survives even when its original context has eroded away. To touch the stone is to realize one is both the sculptor and the grain itself.