Mary McCann

Artist Statement

Ocean floors spread. Tectonic plates move. Continents collide. Subduction thrusts up great mountains. Huge land masses slide past one another. One side drops. Another side rises. Unimaginable heat and pressure squeeze rock and rearrange crystalline structure. Volcanos erupt. Ash and molten rock spew out to reform the landscape. Millions of years pass—the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Transformation after transformation requiring time humans cannot comprehend.
Oddly enough I find this story comforting. There is beauty in the new structure, beauty in the rock, beauty in the fact that we are on this ever changing Earth. And we have no say in how She decides to keep on moving.
In this body of work I am exploring outcomes of events in the geologic story of our planet.

Mary's work has been shown in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest and is included in public collections.