Graphite rises from earth into thinning air,
the surface carrying the language of stone —
fractured, compressed, shaped across millennia of pressure, weather, and human longing.
 
Above, the atmosphere opens in a quiet exhalation.
 
An invitation to dissolve —
to breathe with something that was breathing long before you arrived,
and will continue long after.
 
Part of the Graphite and Ochre collection.