The Lithic Pantheon 

This body of work explores the human impulse to construct the divine. Historically, we have carved "gods" out of the earth—using stone to grant immortality and weight to our abstract fears and aspirations. In this series, I apply that same monumental alchemy to the natural world.

By rendering organic subjects—the scorpion, the serpent, the seahorse—in a restricted, stone-colored palette, I am stripping away their biological vulnerability. They are no longer creatures of flesh and bone; they are lithic icons. The modular, segmented construction suggests a deliberate "building" of these forms, as if they were engineered or hewn from a single block of primordial marble.

The recurring eye motifs within the geometric segments serve as a reminder of the Gaze of the Idol. These figures do not merely exist in nature; they stand in a state of eternal, stony stasis, watching the viewer with an omniscience that feels both ancient and futuristic.

Through this architectural deification, the work asks: What happens when we stop seeing nature as a resource and start seeing its fundamental geometry as a god?

12 pieces planned in this first series. Estimated completion Q3 2026