CORE 1-12

CORE-(in mining, geology) a cylindrical sample and a central portion of earth, mineral, or rock extracted from the ground by means of a corer so that the strata are undisturbed in the sample.

While carving twelve limestone COREs, I realized I carved not only a physical medium but also the result of a long period of time, hidden in strata. Persisting in the interior carving within stone, the very negative space becomes a pathway, a tangible representation of time’s passage in nature. Removing superfluity, only necessity remains. 
Formally, chaos and order coexist within this tangled, infinite Möbius strip form. Philosophically, the series draws from East Asian conceptions of emptiness—each act of carving becomes a reenactment of making a world anew through removal rather than accumulation. The void becomes both acoustic and metaphysical: a resonant cavity where memory and silence coexist and a metaphor for histories that survive through absence. 

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