In these sculptures, Iain explores preoccupations with roads, paths, journeys, and human marks in the landscape. He takes the vocabulary of lettering, the chisel-edged brush and the incised line, and pushes them into abstraction. The work connects the body through the haptic act of carving, with landscape in its most elemental form; stones become landscapes, and roads and paths rich metaphors for our human journeying. The cadences of cycling and walking find an echo in the rhythms of carving, and the experience of traversing a landscape finds its expression in the drawing of a line across a stone. Mindful of this moment of environmental crisis, in the age of the Anthropocene, the work asks, "What traces are we leaving on the earth?"