Earth Tracks

Wood, paper pulp, plaster, stone, sea brick, charcoal, acrylic & flour.

(2023)

 

The series of sculptures explore the current social response to migration dealing with self preservation and relocating identity with migration. Considering old and new heritage.

Surface tension, the forming of metamorphic rock. A stable yet chaotic process, ultimately evolving and re-identifying itself - but its previous geological state is apparent to those that look. Does this parallel cultural displacement? The past is embedded within the rock yet it holds a new expanding sense of self. Demonstrating how cyclical changes are inherent to living systems such as rocks and cultures and showing how they can survive and develop. Just as societies ultimately do overlap and evolve with a combined narrative more often than we think. 

The sculptures also symbolise the abundance in multi-mineral content of organic and inorganic systems and how survival is dependent on environment. The collectivity of evolution, highlighting how natural agencies bound by cyclical changes are inherent to living systems and their environments. Rock inclusions form as cultures of varying minerals; all bound together creating a sanctum of material, respective of individual space. Inclusions are an archive of events and narratives representing an epoch of change in accumulative environmental identity. Just as one culture includes aspects of other cultures yet still evolves with individualised properties.