lithic dust . series 1 is an exploration of the sandstone stories from three desert geographies across the Colorado Plateau. the base painting is intentionally neutral and graphically formal to allow the dust exposure to be the focal element of the composition. on each of the 12 boards, i used 6 grams of stone  and 1 of 2 controlled dispersion methods, identifiable from those works with discernible striations from those without. the strict controls allow the works to showcase the lithological story of the sandstones and how each sandstone responds to the process of release and to the process for encapsulating the stone dust in this temporal present.