As Explained Elsewhere
The function of Malta's cart ruts has long been a matter of speculation; despite decades of research, their origins remain unresolved.
Still they tell of a fundamental human impulse: to inscribe ourselves into the earth, to cut and carve, to impose lines, order, and meaning onto the landscape. But meaning is not permanent and over time, the marks we leave behind can become opaque, like a foreign language whose key has been lost.
Having outlived all memory of their making, the ruts exist now as pure form, slowly eroding or disappearing beneath new development. The work is a record of what persists after purpose has been forgotten: lines still legible but no longer readable.