“Piedra espesa [Dense Stone] functions as a vertical, dividing night sky—not just a screen, but a sculpture; a rigid mass beginning to transition toward liquid, to envelop us all in night.”
Guillermo Mora
I recall seeing in Pompeii a mantle of lava that covered bodies and objects. I also think of night as a mantle that arrives and envelops us. Night can be ethereal, but also dense, magmatic—a curtain oscillating between softness and hardness, rigidity and thickness.
Rising from the floor to reach the museum ceiling, Piedra espesa [Dense Stone] functions as a vertical, dividing night sky—not just a screen, but a sculpture; a rigid mass beginning to transition toward liquid, to envelop us all in night.
