Nestle Sight hr
Well, I don't mean to trivialize Smyth's work by
comparing it to a lunch, but there is something of an
organic analogy that exists between the two. For in
the instant exhibition, Smyth has traveled backwards,
from architecture to its raw material—stone—tracing
and recording the journeys stones make before they
are "cooked," transmuted by architect and builder into
masonry.
Smyth, who lives on Shelter Island, collects stones. In
the Salomon Gallery's notes it is stated "Broken from
mountains, these stones have been carried, tumbled
and ground for thousands of miles, and finally dropped
at a glacial moraine where they are smoothed by
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