Flint

2022. Drawing: Lapis lazuli, silverpoint and gesso on 300gsm Arches paper, 30 × 30cm (framed 40 × 40cm). Seven pendants: Lapis lazuli and nylon cord.
Photography credits: Document Photography (drawing), Cesar Cueva (pendants).

Flint is a series of works in lapis lazuli: a drawing and seven pendants. The works are produced through processes of breaking, grinding and inscription, in which solid stone is transformed across multiple states. Lapis is cleaved by hand into irregular fractured forms. Voids are carved through each piece to allow a cord to pass, forming pendants. The resulting dust from this process is retained and used to produce drawings on primed paper, worked with lapis and silverpoint. Across the series, pendants and drawings are materially linked, with each drawing produced from the same stone as its corresponding object. Through these processes, the stone shifts from mass to particulate, from body to surface, carrying its material continuity across forms.