The hills of Northern California carry a particular stillness — open meadows interrupted by outcroppings of raw stone, boulders that seem to have always been there, unhurried and immovable. Vertical Landscapes draws from that specific quality of place: the way geology asserts itself against an otherwise quiet field.

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Each piece pairs found stone fragments with a tall, narrow aluminum panel. Like boulders breaking the surface of a meadow, the rough, iron-stained specimens interrupt the smooth metal plane — an encounter between the geological and the industrial, the irreproducible and the uniform. 

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An integrated light source mounted on the back of the panel washes the wall behind it, casting a soft glow across the surrounding space. With the light off, the panel reads as a quiet ground for the stone. When lit, the illuminated wall becomes a third element — the piece expands outward, activating the space around it rather than the surface itself.