ZZ Kreb’s stone-carving process employs skills learned from her own mother. Hand-carved limestone in Omphalos reminds me of a joyful woman’s body: laugh lines, wrinkles, folds of fat or skin. The opaque, chalky stone is like breast milk or sperm. Nourishing, erotic, life-making. Omphalos, also “the navel,” is the center or origin of the universe in many myths and cosmogonies. Is the navel not firstly an umbilical cord? A vein providing nourishment that connects a child to its mother? ZZ Kreb’s Omphalos uses materials of stone, wood, latex, and steel to reflect upon our connection to time, nature, and the human experience. Each work explores the act of art-making as creation, life-making, and life-sustaining. As such, the show weaves together human and non-human timescales through a use of prehistoric stone, part-object forms, and invented organisms or creatures.