Anagram (Orgic Clouds, Litho Droughts)

“Anagram (Orgic Clouds, Litho Droughts)” is a marble-inlay sculpture created as an apotropaic dedication to Earth’s evolving extreme weather phenomena. Floods and droughts—constantly becoming more and more intense and frequent—are captured in a two-part anagram poem and are discussed together as destructive effects of climate change, deforestation, and human intervention. The letters of the poem are cut with the aid of CNC waterjet and switched around within the surface, disrupting the natural pattern of the stone. The surface of the Euboea marble used broadly in the city of Athens resembles a cloudy sky and at the same time constitutes a visual encoding of the slow geological processes of the planet. As a metamorphic rock, it was formed by the high temperature and pressure of Earth’s crust. “Anagram” looks at geology, climate, and civilization as an integrated network that entangles inorganic matter, biological processes, and cultural codes into a common ‘Earth System.’