Invited by Bergen based studio, gallery and boutique Kiosken to be their artist in residence during September 2023, my time was focused on a hands-on process of gathering the textures and patterns of local stone finishes from the streets surrounding Kiosken. Hand-printed paper provided a myriad of colourful backdrops to these textures and patterns, brought to life through frottage in pastel. A collection of samples was produced alongside a series of six artworks that have combined these textures with motifs of tradition stone mining - providing a small insight into the physical, manual labour that went in to mining and processing the stone that makes up Bergen’s city center.