Our Last Stone draws on the primordial origins of sculpture and land art: the stacking of stones for memorial, burial and navigation. Abdus Salaam invokes all three. The work is a memorial to our past, a preemptive burial in the face of climate change, and a point of navigation and hope, embodied by the foundational stone that has not yet melted.

Scientists predict that the Sun will one day engulf the Earth, and the artist uses this as an endpoint, enclosing the sculpture within the span of human time. Salaam imagines the work as a suspended instant in which the stone stacks of mountain passes and beaches melt in a flash. By allowing one stone to remain, the sculpture holds existential urgency and optimism together.

Its sensual, interdependent forms suggest surrender to what has passed, including the prosperity and damage of the post-industrial world, while focusing attention on the narrow window in which humanity can still harmonize with the planet and preserve a climate suitable for life. The work becomes a meditation on collective earthly dependence, impermanence and return.