Alexa Bendek

 

                                                 EARTH FORMS

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming & Newberry Volcano, Oregon

2020 - 2023

Earth Forms is a series of three photographs made at sites of active and residual volcanic force. At Yellowstone's geyser basins, mineral-rich water leaves iron oxide stains across sediment in patterns that resist easy reading — the eye searches for scale and finds none.

At Newberry Volcano in Oregon — the largest volcano in the Cascade Arc, active for 600,000 years — obsidian fields record lava cooled so rapidly it became glass, its fracture lines preserved exactly as they formed. Photographed close and printed large, each image removes horizon and context. What remains is surface: a record of geological time made visible and still.

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