pre-rock
rock (Oxford Languages)noun: the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil.verb: move gently to and fro or from side to side.
post·rock is an art and landscape architecture studio born out of a passion for geological and mineral matter. In interpreting rocks as a sedimentation of time, we interrogate the history of the natural formation to reveal and inspire new futures, gently.
post·rock was a birthday present from Jialei Tang to Sonny Meng Qi Xu in 2022.
Richard Serra, Verb List, 1967, graphite on paper, 2 sheets, each 10 x 8 ½ inches (25.4 x 21.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist in honor of Wynn Kramarsky, 2011. © 2013 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Photo: John Wronn
and to paint, to render, to move, to erect, to sculpt, to stack, to catalogue, to curate, to
re-imagine, to re-search, to re-construct,
to pile, to carve, to engrave, to quarry, to align, to trace, to bury, to set, to pave, to build...
/sonny
Sonny Meng Qi Xu (b.1990, Beijing, China) is a Chinese Canadian landscape architect (NY: #003211) and architectural designer based in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. He is currently a landscape architect at STIMSON. With over a decade of work experience, he has practiced as a senior landscape designer at Stoss Landscape Urbanism and as an architectural designer with Mohsen Mostafavi Architecture, FxCollaborative and Epiphyte-Lab, among other firms.
Sonny plays Magic the Gathering.
/lei
“i like rocks.”