Between Stone
& sky
Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands
Gravity, renegotiated.The Concept
Two bare trees, and the boulders that gravity forgot to drop.
In the sculpture garden at Kröller-Müller, two winter trees hold stones in their bare branches — each boulder wedged with an engineer’s precision, defying every instinct about weight and rest. The park does not pause for this. The mown grass continues in straight lines, the sky holds its usual grey, and the trees carry their impossible cargo without complaint.
This series is less about the sculpture’s making than its afterlife — how quickly the extraordinary becomes furniture, how a public garden absorbs even a rearrangement of gravity into its own quiet indifference.
The Grove, Held
Two trees carry what no branch should bear, and the grass does not seem to mind.
The Boulder
Weight 02 / GraniteEach stone was placed by hand, then left for the seasons to argue with.
Suspended
REF_104 / WINTER CANOPY
Mown Line
The grass keeps its straight lines regardless of what the trees are asked to hold.
Quiet Garden
The park stays composed. It has seen stranger things asked of its trees.
Stone Texture
REF_106 // SURFACE STUDY
The Second Tree
Its neighbour, holding a smaller, quieter weight.
Sky, Held Steady
Indifferent to what is asked of the branches beneath it.
Acquire
This Series
Archival pigment prints, ed. 5 + 2 A/P
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Five series, one obsession with structure.
Between Stone & Sky, Concrete Horizons, Green on Brutalist, Acqua Alta and Grand Canal, Venice — each one an argument for the same idea. Explore the complete body of work.