Born molten at the earth’s interior, it cooled into hard solid matter, and stayed cold for millions of years. The gesture here is to return a small fire to it not necessarily for light but for warmth. The material remembering its origin.

Cored in an earlier life and left behind as residue, the intervention reaches areas the stone was never meant to expose. That interior becomes what cradles the flame.
Hearth 01 the debuting piece of a series of unique sculptural works in WA Black Basalt developed as material becomes available.