Maison/0 This Earth 2023

"The work resembles the decorative wrought iron gates of Victorian England but takes the form of a Mangrove tree, indigenous to South America and Florida; exploring the west’s broken relationship to the land versus the indigenous way of being in harmony with it. The gate acts as the entryway into an ‘ecological mindset’ inviting the viewer to enter an imagined sympoietic future. The boundaries created through European colonisation and the fences they placed on stolen indigenous lands in order to ‘protect’ mirrors the border created by mangroves as they separate land from water."

“The work is part of an ongoing practice into experimental methods of making a 'painting'. I am a labourer making the work, I need to understand how to make dove-tail joints, I cannot ‘artificially’ make work. I am drawn to the specificity and simplicity of objects like metal G-clamps, particularly the sleekness and minimalist nature they embody- like the origin of a word, they are the most ‘g-clampiest’ g-clamp.

I aim to create work that  explores the displacement of communities as a consequence of coastal flooding. Having experienced the loss of my own home due to debris in Venezuela years ago, I am driven to portray a potential future scenario of mass displacement resulting from rising sea levels. "

"Consumption[s] is of core interest to my work. Over-consumption, products of consumption, the expendable excesses from other things consumed. The objects that are used and how they seek to both penetrate and consume, pronged and fork-like. My most recent body of work employs packing materials, remnants once used to contain something else but being their own things in their own right. Both useful and redundant, they are self-contained and unsure about where they belong."