A Geological Survey, the first solo exhibition by Rose Marie Cromwell at EUQINOM Gallery, unfolds as a meditative journey through memory, landscape, and lineage. Drawing on her roots in the American West, Cromwell turns her lens toward the places that shaped her early life, intertwining the geological with the personal to question how land and identity mirror one another.
The series follows Cromwell, her mother, and her young daughter as they travel through Western terrains marked by history and transformation. Portraits of the three generations are woven with images of weathered rocks, mining remnants, and fragile natural formations, revealing a landscape that holds both wounds and wonder. Through this intimate perspective, Cromwell reclaims the Western myth from its traditional narratives of conquest and masculinity, reframing it as a space of nurturing, reckoning, and renewal.
Cromwell’s images move between tenderness and unease, as if balancing nostalgia for childhood road trips with anxiety for her daughter’s future. The landscape becomes a living archive, where past and present coalesce. Works like The Cave and In the Dry Flowers evoke portals between generations—birth, growth, and decay repeating in quiet rhythms. The presence of her family, both fragile and enduring, mirrors the resilience of the land itself.
In Fissure, a quilt-like composition of layered photographs, Cromwell extends her practice into tactile form. This piece, sewn from fragments of imagery, reflects the intertwined nature of human memory and geological time. The act of piecing together images becomes an act of care and continuity, much like tending to inherited stories.
A Geological Survey ultimately reads as both personal memoir and environmental reflection—a meditation on time’s persistence, the intimacy of place, and the legacies we leave for those who follow.
Image: Rose Marie Cromwell, The Cave, 2025, Archival inkjet print, 40 x 32 in, (Edition of 3 +1AP) © Rose Marie Cromwell
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