Occupied by the question of time, my work with stone, glass, metal, water, scent, light and sound resides in spaces between the slightness of human time scales and the unyielding reality of Deep Time, searching for points of intersection. Guided by the nature of stone as palimpsest record of time; of earth memory, I consider the significance of memory in relation to the fluid nature of time, value, and place. Knowing time to be interwoven with place I work in pursuit of deepening questions on where our place in time might be. I welcome and protect the mysteries time offers, mapping the edges where earth’s time meets human cultural products. Informed by the study of geology, chronobiology, phenology, and zen buddhist theory and absorbed by the spirit of archive my work meditates on time’s nature as both a physical reality and an equally metaphysical entity.
Evan Pettiglio is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in California. They earned an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute.