‘Growing in Stone (Untethered Mountains)’ refers to a series of altered antique postcards of 60 Swiss Alpine landscapes. Each image is carefully and slowly altered with black paint to ‘untether’ the mountains from their landscape and context, reducing the mountain to an isolated rock and unsettling the sense of scale. New narratives of both loneliness and regrowth are revealed. Returning to using correction fluid, the altered postcards in the series ‘A Soft Covering that Hides’, suggest white glacial fleece coverings, and reference incomplete methods of erasure. These images were used in a series of portal-like tree-tags, in which the mountain can be read as a small mossy tump, or vast landscape.
Keywords: Alpine, untethering, isolation, erasure, unrooted, portals,