2024, Tidelines and Islands

A family photo album unintentionally left to the elements on a basement floor. Decay is accelerated and the potent force of decomposition is visibly revealed and captured mid-process, colours and memories leaching. The affects of decay, not usually acceptable in art or archival objects, are instead celebrated as fundamental participants in rampant, leaky ecologies. The…

2023, Is it a rock, is it a mirror

In the opaque and deformed capitalist societies that we struggle to make sense of, corporate elites constrain the idea of the non-hierarchical collective. Seen as weak and depleted from capital and without continual expansion, the aims of the collective are not understood by the current and reigning economic system. A public curiosity found at Ruakaka…

2020 – ongoing, Buried

BURIED CANVAS SERIES - 2020 - ongoing 3.) 'Observations of the ground (through canvas), Kingsland, Tamaki Makaurau, Buried April - Unearthed May 2024 Buried for the ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT exhibition at Northart, May 2024 2.) Kingsland, Tamaki Makaurau, Buried March - Unearthed August 2021 1.) Kingsland, Tamaki Makaurau, Buried April - Unearthed July 2020 Buried during…

2021, Onepanea

Onepanea Composing languages of the Waitematā and its shoreline, Onepanea looks at the various communication of place. Assembling languages that are human, nonhuman, the lesser-known and those in everyday use, Onepanea works through a linguistic strata of Lightship’s place. Sites of geological reclamation are addressed by Onepanea as the work charts nautical naming conventions, indigenous…

2022, Erotic Geologies

Erotic Geologies is a sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground. Myriad cultures across time have made sense of the ground and underground through folklore, fairy tale and science fiction. Erotic Geologies layers these modes of knowledge-sharing to tell a narrative about renewal, cyclical time, and a continually mobile geology - through the lens…

2020, Every existent in the world is in my room right now

'Every existent in the history of the world is in my room right now', Looped H265 10bit, 2020 "Each particle of dust carries with it a unique vision of matter, movement, collectivity, interaction, affect, differentiation, composition, and infinite darkness." — Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia The interior life of lockdown was a series of small rooms. At…

2022, Medium Continued…

‘Medium Continued’ reveals complex, distinct, multiple and interconnected continua through the matter accumulated in the making of this work: Medium cont. crystalline carbon in graphite powder form, pulped Fabriano 240gsm acid-free paper from ‘forests responsibly managed respectful of environmental, social and economic standards’, laundry tub lint, an emerald matrix rough mineral specimen (to help open…

2020, Footpath Fossils (breathe)

A contemplation of deterioration, and an exploration of meaningful production as a subset of care. The COVID-19 lockdown brought the repair and construction of the footpath to a halt. Markings from tools and previous layers of grout lay broken. A lull in productivity and progress to admire the way, Mahon Way, a well-trodden path. Small…

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, objects reveal themselves, and by collecting, documenting and deciphering my findings, I hope to gather enough data to learn something fundamental. For…

2019, Unearthing

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 push high up above the surface of the ocean as fast as they are being worn down, nothing visible today will remain on the earth surface in the deep…

2019, Found, early decadence era

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 a crucial role in maintaining and regulating stable conditions for life on this planet. In this turbulence of deep time, things…

2020, Footpath Fossils

Casts of broken footpaths near and around Karangahape Rd, Tāmaki Makaurau preserve markings from tools and previous layers of broken grout. Lockdowns brought repair and construction of the footpath to a halt. During this lull in productivity and progress I collected these casts to admire the well-used areas we travel through, to acknowledge and contemplate…