Le photographe Zac Henderson a réalisé une série de clichés de rochers ressemblant à des draps, du grès d’Entrada dans l’Utah, intitulée draped stone.
Des roches sculptées par l’érosion qui leur a donné de magnifiques effets plissé comme si elles étaient du textile ou un matériau souple (ou des pierres dans les mains de José Manuel Castro López)
Certaines sont en forme de cheminée fantomatique, facétie de la nature appelées hoodoos en anglais comme les cheminées de fées de Renon , les rocher diaboliques de Djavolja Varos ou encore les poupées de Kuklica.
Though our Earth has had access to a variety of tools and materials to work with over billions of years, the erosion of sandstone seems to be the ideal choice for dynamic, strange, and mesmerizing sculpture.
Draped Stone depicts such negative structures. The ghostly white Entrada Sandstone, formed between 180 and 140 million years ago, can form hoodoos, or towers, carved by ages of erosion with a protective, less erodible rock on top. These hoodoos have lost their protective caps, but are still less eroded than their surroundings.
I am taken with the textile like qualities of this rock. It is almost as if fabric were draped over boulders to protect them from the elements. In another way, the rocks appear almost comically similar to a stereotypical ghost costume, needing only eyes to complete the ensemble. It is a strange thing for something so opposite to fabric to take on any sort of cloth-like appearance, yet here we are met with a most bizarre sort of muslin almost asking us to look underneath.
Après Two Deserts par le photographe, voici Draped Stone – des rochers ressemblant à des draps, en images:
(plus de ses clichés sur le site web du photographe ici ou sur sa page Behance là)
Toutes les photos: crédits Zac Henderson (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).