‘Shadow Traces Swirl And Remember’, 2023. Water-mixable oil on linen, 253 x 253 mm.
Master of Fine Arts
ANCESTRAL SEDIMENTS recognises entwined lineages to cast light on the inherent bond between the human and the geologic. As we live and move amid the archived ancestry of rock and earth, their minerals, the antecedents of our modern selves, are retained through an archival transmission of ancestral lineage that evolves within each new layer deposited. Deep-time processes draw forth the related natures of rock, lithifying human form in an amalgamation of the immortal and the transitory. The ever shifting endurance of rock-time is a contradiction to human-time and renders the gaps between aeons and instants arbitrary. A redirection of vision awakens sensorial sight, rather than eye-sight, to oppose the materialistic and short-sighted perspective humans readily employ, which allows for deeper layers to become newly perceptible at distance and with time.