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Stone and Skin Grip, I Am engages the earliest stirrings of human self-awareness, when gesture first met surface, and the instinct to mark gave rise to meaning. This print operates at a threshold where image and memory collapse into one another, evoking the interior of a Paleolithic cave as both spatial environment and psychic register. The animal form, rendered in a luminous red, floats across stratified layers suggestive of weathered stone, an echo of ancestral touch, of pigment pressed into rock in darkness.

This work forms the Upper Paleolithic axis within A Hymn in Fibres, Flesh and the Human Register, grounding the installation in a time when image-making was a mode of communion: with land, with species, with something larger than the self. Silkscreen becomes more than a reproductive tool; it becomes an archaeological process in its own right. Layers build like sediment; texture operates as time.

The print questions how knowledge is felt before it is understood, how visual
language once emerged not from theory, but from necessity and reverence. Its presence within the constellation is not a static artifact but a living imprint: responsive, vulnerable, and in negotiation with past and present. It holds tension between control and surrender, presence and residue, acting as a tactile invocation of what it meant to make contact, with surface, species, and the self becoming human.