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Rock Clock

by Sean McFarland

Book in Slipcase with Folded Poster

Edition of 75 + 5 Limited Editions

The Rock Clock is located in the Eastern Sierra Nevada on the western edge of Round Valley, resting in an alluvial fan. There is no sign or marker. It is Mesozoic granite, formed deep within the earth and part of the proto-Sierra itself. At some point, water worked its way into the rock's joints. Freezing, thawing, freezing, thawing, tick tock, tick tock until it split in two with a single crack event. The boulder is a glacial erratic, displaced and delivered, sitting now among sage, saltbrush, and the drift of wildflowers and butterflies.
—Sean McFarland

Book: 9 x 12 in
Poster: 18 x 24, folded into custom envelope
Slipcase: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4

Photographs and writing by Sean McFarland

Designed and handmade by the artist with support from Deep Time Press 
Typesetting by Leah Koransky using Univers, designed by Adrian Frutiger 

Published by Deep Time Press, 2026

Covers of book and slipcase blind debossed by Leah Koransky on a Vandercook SP-15, with support from Kala Art Institute

Papers:
Slipcase — Stonehenge Fawn
Book Cover — Rives BFK Grey
Book Pages—Classic Crest Eggshell Natural 80# Text
Poster — Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Bright White 80# Text

Soft launch May 9, 2026 at the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair with in-person artist signing

5 limited editions with clamshell box and framed print coming July 2026 to coincide with the San Francisco Art Book Fair

Sean McFarland is an artist from California. His photographs, sculptures, drawings, videos, and books examine records of experience, time, landscape, and spirituality. Sean lives in San Francisco, teaches at the School of Art at San Francisco State University, and enjoys seeing the world via bicycle.

Sean received an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BS from Humboldt State University. His solo exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Visual Studies Workshop; San Francisco Camerawork; and White Columns. Group exhibitions include the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; George Eastman Museum; Aperture; Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Milwaukee Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; National Gallery of Art; George Eastman Museum; City and County of San Francisco; and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

His awards include the SECA Award - SFMOMA, the Eureka Fellowship, the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, and the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship.

sean-mcfarland.com
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