The Remnants of Early Modern Humans

Remnants of the past manifest in scattered boulders, skeletal stonework, and abandoned monoliths stubbornly passing through time, wearing their history across ruined surfaces.

Each element of my artworks responds to the nature of ruination. I interpret and manipulate weathered stone buildings, emulating sporadic erosion through my creative interventions, to visually capture a moment in time that can speak to both a rich history of civilisation and spark imagination into the deep future.

I subject my drawings and photographs of castle ruins located in Corfe Castle to experimental practices in printmaking and sculpture, exploring the potentials of combining traditional methods and techniques, like etching, aquatint, and bronze casting, alongside contemporary materials and processes that include photogrammetry and 3D print.

Intricate line drawings upon zinc plates are engraved into the metal with acid over and over until the image itself turns to ruin, becoming lost beneath the haze of the open bite. Casts of a beacon stand upon the skeletons of concrete structures, where their patinas are reflected on the base plate of their creation.

I am drawn to investigating a material’s history, often considering how it has been used overtime and what it may represent. Distorting the ruin through multiple processes, materials, and scales confronts the viewer with an unstable timeline. By bridging familiar construction methods with newer technologies as a form of worldbuilding, I hint at a history of human activity and a potential future of how these material uses may exist in the landscape in years to come.