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This was an installation constructing a site through material translations and studies of found objects gathered from a site specific location, Fish Market Reserve. Mediums which I chose to use were inclusive of textiles, sculpture, found objects and paintings. In these material investigations I aimed to discuss the visual information which is retained and expelled in each object. The installed works also identify similarities between organic forms and external objects, similar to the way in which artist Nina Katchadourian (NY) alludes to other life forms relating to her response of form. For example, the shape of googley eyes associated with barnacles (Barnacle Mixer, 2012), or how a conifer is able to mimic aesthetic qualities of baby corn, coral or popular wheat snack, Twisties.

The paintings examine the organic qualities yet seemingly artificial aesthetic of the chosen forms. My intention was to construct a magnified microcosmic atmosphere through my paintings, allowing the forms to linger in an in-between state of presence/absence.

Alluding to landscapes which are absent from reality I wanted to question our perception of objects in their associated environments, and the way which this perception is desensitized once they are taken out of their natural context and re habituated.

“The life and living through us repeatedly died to old forms and old ways…dying in the splitting of the stars, cracking open of the seeds in the soil, relinquishment of gills and fins as we crawled on to dry land…out of the darkness, the new is born.”[i]

British artist Marc Quinn examines the ‘raw, seemingly mystical elements’ [ii]of this world, and mankind’s relationship with nature as an ongoing theme in selected works (Held by Desire, The Invention of Carving, and All the Time in the World, 2013). My position in relation to his works asks to consider the existence of micro ecosystems and their significance in a macroscopic context.

[i] Macy, J. [2012]. “Positive Disintergration. Adapted from Coming Back to Life”. Retrieved from: http://www.joannamacy.net/livingsystems/positive-disintergration.html

[ii] Quinn, M. [2013]. “Held by Desire Solo Exhibition”. Retrieved from the Marc Quinn website: http://www.marcquinn.com/exhibitions/

ps. My referencing sux!