thoughts from the earth is an installation of various stones arranged neatly together in a large circle at Silverwood Park in St. Anthony, Minnesota. Using natural elements from the environment that often can go unnoticed, the installation plays on visibility and invisibility - presenting a way of slow-looking by finding the poetic subtleties and forming new ways of experiencing the world.

During the pandemic and afterwards, the site has been used as a gathering space and for somatic healing practices including tai chi, yoga, meditation, play, and poetry readings.

I see this installation as a meditation on the mysteries of time, cycles, form, action, and belief. Ancient stone circles have been associated with memorializing the dead and were used as places of ritual and healing. Thoughts from the earth is a site for the contemplation of stones as time capsules, showing us a broad cycle of time and impermanence. Stones are dynamic nonlinear systems embedded with information about various epochs, including the Anthropocene - holding traces of wind and movement, and human activity, including atomic weapons tests, pollution, and atmospheric greenhouse gasses. Beyond visible realities there is always a deeper story of activity, labor, belief and achievement that goes unseen. Thoughts from the earth is a contemplation of our impact and participation in a large and beautiful organic system.