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Serpentine and copper
48" x 14" x 14"
2004
The rock is almost startlingly green, its light and darker striations set off by hairline-thin black layers, and occasionally interrupted by a sudden shift of order.
It begins to make sense when you know it came from an ancient lake bed near the small Arizona town of Wikieup, Arizona, which is halfway between
Wickenburg and Kingman. The shifts, we are told, are evidence of long ago earthquakes.
It would take an earthquake to move this stalwart now. Proud and tall, the rock stands defiant, conquered only by the copper vines that ascend
its steep faces, which are on two sides sheer and green-striped, and on the other two coated and pocked by calcium like the surface of a moon.
The water pours from the triumphant vines, their copper leaves glinting in the sun, then spills down three faces of the green giant, quietly burbling
about its feat.
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