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Sectional History The ground always remains mutely dominant, growing as we speak, and will outlive the figure harvesting its top layer. But for now, these grounds speak of the figure’s passing. The deep carvings hold a temporal permanence, freshly split open soil exposing sectional histories spanning thousands of years. What amazes about the concept of being able to observe a section through history is the unspeakable overview. A section dares to objectify. It makes what we see measurable. Its thickness stays in the persuasive hidden perspective of the imagination. Not even imagination maybe, just a potent swell. It is just earth that has been sitting there decomposing for a very long time. Its simplicity is seductive. The drawings attempt to reach behind the representation of this piece of peat bog, behind the representation of history, left there, in principle to be kept, to be overgrown by the very process that makes up this history.