Corvid from the garden at Saxmundham. After taking a single image of the bird I decided to bury it, consecrating the ground with a marker made of feathers. The marker was then interpreted by other visitors, one day a little girl came and filled it with leaves and conkers.
During my time at The Art Station in Saxmundham, I focused on an ongoing investigation into the nature of time and how it manifests through materials, processes, and symbols. Much of the work explored the quiet but insistent ways time moves through matter and landscapes. Through analogue photography, I made images of organisms and organic materials.
I continued this inquiry by casting works into the shoreline of Suffolk, forming contemporary fossils in sand and mud using plaster of Paris. Made and excavated in the same gesture, these uncanny forms blur distinctions between past and future, suggesting artefacts from imagined civilizations. Alongside material exploration, I examined shifting symbolic meanings. Inspired by the development of Sizewell C and the use of nuclear semiotics I investigated how warnings, myths, and cultural markers carry across deep time.
Spider's collected from the shed at Saxmundham, digital scans of lumen print photographs and video.
Spider, moulding fruit and water, digital scan of lumen print on Ilford black and white.
Various works completed during my residency. Referencing the 'Yogen No Tori' - a prophetic bird in Japanese folklore that heralds the coming of devastating plague or pandemic.
Moulding Fruit, digital scan of lumen print on Ilford black and white.
