Charles Stankievech: The Desert Turned to Glass

meteorite floats above a sand floor, a psychedelic volcano crystallizes deep time. The Desert Turned to Glass is
a meditation oscillating between the cosmic and the chthonic.
Travelling through vast distances in space and time from outer space to
Paleolithic caves, Stankievech entwines science fiction speculation and
contemporary scientific theories on the origin of life, consciousness,
and art. At a moment obsessed with planetary endings, Stankievech
returns to the formation of the earth’s atmosphere in geologic time—in a
word, to creation itself.