Aphrodite's Rock

A slab of travertine, set aside in a lapidary yard to be discarded — worn through by time and weather until its structure no longer held a usable, uniform surface.

Where the material is intact, the top is cut flat and finished. Where it isn't, the edge is left as found: porous, fractured, open in places straight through the stone. The two conditions sit side by side across a single surface, undisguised.

The slab was acquired and held for two years, waiting on the right application before it was set into a piece.

Two rectangular sections rest on solid wood supports, with slim metal legs carrying the load where the stone's own edge can't. A single cylindrical insert marks one of the openings left by the stone's erosion.

The material cannot be replicated — its structure is the result of natural processes over time, not fabrication. What's usually treated as waste becomes, here, the piece itself.