Install view of Falling From Together at East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, (2020).
Image by Karanjit Panesar.
Falling From Together publication, (2020).
Double sided etched zinc hands with London Plane tree bark, (2020).
Copper sulphate etched hand prints on cut and folded 0.8mm zinc. Each are scale versions of my own hands that have different relationships to bark collected from public sites across London. The work is framed against a peeling RAL coloured spray paint backing. The specific colours are taken from research imagery of the London Plane tree after it sheds its bark each summer.
Falling From Together, 2020. (clip taken from 10.00 min video)
Falling From Together tracks and explores the processes behind the purchase and milling of a London Plane tree felled from St. James’s Park. Cut through and through into slabs the tree is not quite raw material and not something that is made, it is stuck between states. A generative object, to be left dormant and drying, waiting to reach full potential.
Detail of stacked seating structure.
Pressed London Plane tree with custom stainless steel support, (2020).
Pressing a tree turns it into a representation of itself, somewhere between image and object.
As raw material, trees are cut into slabs, planks and boards to essentially make a round thing square and flat, imparting a more manageable structure to its form. Pressing a tree similarly imparts a flat plane. The object is pressed back, becoming a kind of strange signifier of itself for a viewer to reencounter.