2022, Alt-Archaeology
https://altarchaeology.site Deucalion & Pyrrha is a sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground. The stratigraphy of this film layers narrative symbology and cinematic methodology, each informing the other in subtle but critical layers. At the core, Deucalion & Pyrrha is a local contemporary story with characters inspired by both Greek figures Deucalion and…
2021, Companion Pieces
There are many changes in our environment that are not perceptual to the human eye; they hide in objects, decomposing and recomposing only to be observed over vast time. By shifting various coordinates and points of view, the objects of my practice reveal themselves, and by collecting, documenting and deciphering my findings, I hope to gather enough data to…
2019, Unearthing Alternative Futures
Geologists confirm today that strata of the earth are indeed graveyards, keepers of history, and have been in existence for billions of years. Enormous rock masses pushed high up above the surface of the ocean as fast as they are being worn down. But nothing will remain on the surface of the planet in one…
2019, Found, early decadence era
I propose a fictional temporality. My work models our attempts to understand our present by looking back from an imagined future. The earth-interior is a trove of strata. These strata are the keepers of history, weaving eras and stories of past landscapes. Still, they are geologically impermanent, continually in motion – a motion which plays…
2020, Footpath Fossils
My work documents exposed urban stratigraphy. I look for layers that aren’t meant to be seen. Curbside ruins. Crumbled footpaths. Potholes. These layers are visible histories of life/nonlife entangled within the ground. I interpret these small moments in our urban landscape as interruptions to capitalist strategies. Mythically and metaphorically rich, the ground provides us with…
2014, Project Installation – Corner Window curated by Rob Garrett, Auckland
“Considering the way our visual field is daily under a media assault, the artist wishes to create alternatives which offer retreat and respite from daily life. Believing in the cathartic influence and potential of abstraction, Tozer’s project for Corner was devised to create “a portal to the fluid and private dream space” of the willing…
