Stratigraphy features paintings and prints of landscapes that are curious and seemingly unknown. Fossils, artifacts, and layers of strata are captured in brushstrokes and reinterpreted in the prints. On closer examination you discover signs, symbols and layers that are more recognizable than at first glance. Can it be that the layers of the earth as well as the layers of humanity stay forever etched in the ground around us and in our unconscious minds? Can it be that this is what draws us to a place and unknowingly creates a thread of connection that we do not acknowledge but just feel?
Genevieve Robertson’s large-scale drawings on paper involve extensive physical exploration and are materially linked to specific regions and their land and resource politics. Walking in the Dark queries how drawing with carbon might provide reflection on this ubiquitous material and its role in resource extraction and climate change. The granular, stratified images are meant to invoke the primordial life-forms from which their materials originate, and perhaps give substance to the ecological grief that many people are experiencing as our planet, and region changes.