disarticulation

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What I have labelled as 'disarticulation' includes several things that want explication:

• how the observed rocks get that way: a mechanical process of breakup of clasts; a slow but inexorable process of fracture and leverage, expanding and contracting along fault lines, pebbles in cracks...

  Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock. A clast is a fragment of geological detritus, chunks and smaller grains of rock broken off other rocks by physical weathering. See wiktionary definition and Wikipedia on Clastic Rock.

• reference to the early-20th century art currents that worked with component abstractions (Cubists, etc.) and were significantly influenced by African carvings. They built paintings and sculpture from the abstracted elements
• my own imaginative vreation of "creatures" in fragmented rock, which draws upon my (scant and imperfect) knowledge of the movements i art, and upon my own visual memory, and upon a well-developed sense of whimsy. I don't 'build' (in the sense of arrange or modify the materials), but rather project or discover or see patterns in observed alignments of the material. They are faces, bodies, references to images I've seen somewhere sometime.

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and on a large scale: