Filmed under lower light to better show the symbol’s luminosity.
Archive: DHPW-2026-036
Artist: Dave Holt
Year: 2026
Medium: Acrylic on raw petrified wood
Dimensions: approx. 4⅛ × 5⅜ × 3⅛ in. (10.5 × 13.7 × 7.9 cm)
Weight: 4.4 lb (2.00 kg)
Origin: Northern Arizona
Geological age: Late Triassic, approximately 200+ million years old
About the Work
This piece retains much of the visual character of the original wood. Pale tan, cream, muted red, and gray mineralization follows the grain, fractures, and broken contours of the stone, with sections where the ancient wood structure remains particularly visible. Across portions of the raw surface, clusters of minute crystals form a fine, sparkling texture that changes with the light. The painted surface occupies only part of this geological field. Black symbols, circles, triangles, lines, and small clusters of marks move across the natural fractures, joined by gold, copper, turquoise, and the isolated red point.
The composition feels less like an image placed onto the stone than something emerging within an already existing structure. Painted lines intersect with natural cracks, while repeated circles and triangular forms create their own rhythm against the preserved grain. Most of the object remains untouched, allowing the raw petrified wood to dominate as the piece is turned. There is no assigned translation or fixed narrative. The symbols suggest organization and relationship without explaining themselves, leaving the geological structure and the contemporary marks to exist together without either one fully resolving the other.
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