The Dust Between Our Nails and Fingertips

The Dust Between Our Nails and Fingertips
2024

The Dust Between Our Nails and Fingertips digitally engraves a slab of stone to mimic petroglyph handprints on mountain cliffs; it asks if the toil of a machine can transmute the emotive gravity of handprints made over thousands of years.
The project features a custom CNC stone carver in an anthropomorphic frame, posing as a creature suspended between past and present. Influenced by quarry stone cutting techniques, a custom diamond tool produces markings akin to those created by a human fingertip, slowly etching out a stone slab, turning solid to dust, and leaving marks of labor.

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