Introspectives
evolving, embodied and gentle explorations of practices in a more-than-human world
Unstable Table
The Unstable Table (2022) is an assemblage of reclaimed/offcut timber, new plywood, clamps and no glue. It is to be worked with, not (ab)used*. Although it is unstable and thus objectively failed as a utilitarian table, it is actually at work hosting precious artwork.
The Unstable Table is a device for an embodied experience of a future, one of the many possible futures - or even, an alternative present, the start of an alternative future. There is no one way to read it and it doesn't demand a single truth or intrepretation. Is it about precarity, balance, or circularity? Is it about the aesthetics of reclamation and imperfection? Is it about practising greater care when working with materials and non-human entities?
* borrowed the word from Dunne and Raby's Design Noir.
Portraits of Assemblage Creatures
Portraits of Assemblage Creatures is a series of collograph (printmaking) works, started in 2022.
A bin is not a blackhole. Wishcycling is not recycling. But what imagination could come out of the mistaken blackholes?
Everything that is put into the bin goes to exist somewhere else, so far, on Earth. Plastic materials (mainly packaging) from everyday human sustenance from my own bin were cleaned, reclaimed and collaged for creating the collographs.
Through practice, I explore the concept and investigate the complexity of un-casting the bin as a black hole.
Esoterraria-p
A non-verbal durational performance (12 hours), open to, but not insisting on, participation:
Plastic wastes
Witness the everyday of human ways
Trusted and hated
In glue
In oceans
In artery bypass graft surgery
In human blood
A cube from a different time-space
Foreign as alien race
Transparent and laboured
Silent and traced
Beyond extrude, inject, mould lies embodied tales of care, belonging and ecology
Esoteric for whose taste
Bring them on, play and convey
Tomato Plants et al
Tomato plants - my creative partner since 2020. More has to be said but more is not easy to put in words.
Talk to me.
Urban Wilderness
Urban Wilderness is a series of collograph work in which the subjects are "wildlife", as observed from the urban settings of my everyday life. Started late in 2022, still finding words.
Talk to me.