Material Territories - Veins

Veins was photographed along the granite coast of northern Corsica. Walking repeatedly through the same rocky landscapes, I became interested in the fractures, quartz intrusions and mineral lines revealed by erosion.

The photographs isolate these details, allowing the geology to be read at a different scale. Pressure, rupture and slow geological formation become visible across the rock surface. Without altering the landscape, the camera reveals structures that usually remain unnoticed, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces and weather.

Veins grew from observing how closely looking at stone can gradually change the way we read a landscape.

Developed within the Unclearpicture collaboration with writer Michel Maurel

Sunlit granite on the northern Corsican coast, crossed by a pale mineral vein with distant mountains softly out of focus.
Low evening light reveals ridges, fractures and eroded channels across a broad granite surface near the sea.
Rounded granite forms interlock in a dense field of fissures, mineral seams and weathered textures.
Close view of granite divided by dark cracks and bluish shadows, turning the rock surface into an abstract terrain.
Pale quartz intrusions thread between rounded blocks of granite in a close geological study.
A diagonal mineral seam cuts through warm granite, exposing pressure, rupture and contrasting textures.
Dark granite fills the frame, crossed by a narrow pale vein and fine fractures shaped by erosion.
Warm pink granite is split by deep branching cracks, with distant rock and sky beyond.
Layered granite formations rise from the Corsican shore, their compressed lines recording geological time.
Angular blocks and broken slabs form a fractured wall of granite in muted brown and grey tones.
Close study of weathered coastal granite marked by intersecting cracks and a pale mineral intrusion.
A jagged ridge of granite and quartz catches the low sun, resembling a miniature mountain range.
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