Solidified black pahoehoe lava with rope-like folded texture, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Miasma

Solidified pāhoehoe lava on the Big Island, its surface cooled into rope-like folds that read as fabric or hide long before they read as stone. Almost the whole frame sits in the bottom of the tonal range — black basalt gives back very little light, and the creases between the folds go to true black.

A companion piece to Nimbus, made a decade earlier on the opposite end of the same idea: undulating volume with no horizon and no scale to hold onto, one in near-white snow, one in near-black stone.

Nikon D7200 · Nikkor 18-200mm · 22mm · f/7.1 · 1/50 sec · ISO 200

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Available as a limited edition fine art print, produced on demand in four finishes. Full sizing and materials are on the prints page.

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