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Artist Statement by Dustin Ferguson

At midday, beneath a pale sky, the Shipyard stands—moss-covered boulders shaped like monuments, arranged as if by unseen hands. These stones were once mountains, once cliffs. Now they rise in silence, rectangular and resolute, like tombstones for giants.

If Mountains Had Tombstones is a meditation on memory and erosion. Shot in monochrome, the image strips away distraction, revealing the sacred geometry of time. The rocks feel ritualistic, mythic—echoes of something ancient and enduring. Their texture speaks of age. Their posture, of reverence.

This formation is more than geology. It’s a graveyard of grandeur. A place where the earth remembers what it once held high. The photo invites reflection on legacy, on what remains when the towering falls. It asks: if mountains could mourn themselves, would they leave behind stones like these?

This image honors the quiet power of decay. The beauty in what’s been lost. And the truth that even the strongest things eventually rest.