Saskia Baden’s iterative photo-sculptures are made from debris and images collected over the course of her now years-long relationship with a rock that sits in an intertidal zone near Malibu. The works in Cradle ask how her soft, temporal body can be in relation to this hard, geological body, especially as, within the scale of human time, the rock is permanent. They probe the possibilities situated among their bodies, how they might mingle, conjoin. The small photographs in these works accumulate, build up and out. Sometimes an image adds something distinctive, but mostly, they offer repeated, near-identical views of the rock. They obsessively confront the barrier of intimacy; they grasp, relentlessly, toward the impossible, using photography as a way of making something real. Encased in emulsion, they are also a human way of making a rock, of bridging linear and deep-time. They ask: How can an image be a cradle? How does it hold, to what does it cling?