Artist: Mackenzie Mario Benato
Title: A friend
Year: 2024
Materials: Sandstone stamp + gouache and acrylic on paper
Size: Stamp 170mm wide x 120mm high x 50mm deep + Print 300mm wide x 215mm high
Stones taken from a rubble bin, over 2 years.
Flat faces made by bridge saw.
Sprays water, catches sand, makes mud. Protects lungs.
(sandstone) (dust) (silica)
Carved into stamps. (hammer)
(chisel) As motifs.
They feel good in the hand, heavy, rough.
Your fingers find veins and grooves your eyes can’t. The stone absorbs,
water, paint, shock wave and then,
breaks, transforms, remembers.
Each stamp is a long story.
