I shot source material for <em>Slabs </em>at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. I was drawn to the amalgam of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. From these photographs, I created a series of large scale collages. Some are rectangular, which look at once like traditional photographs and trompe l’oeil stone slabs. Others take their shape from ecclesiastic art and architecture including a diptych, a stele, and an altarpiece. The cave and the temple, at opposite ends of a spectrum between asceticism and opulence, both act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual.