In the turbulence of deep time, things come alive that seemed inert: ice breathes, rock has tides, mountains undulate, and caves speak. We cross through the margin from surface exterior to earth interior, looking for clues, knowledge, transcendence, and refuge, as well as the sunken networks of extraction, exploitation and disposal.
Casts of broken footpaths near and around Karangahape Rd, Tāmaki Makaurau preserve markings from tools and previous layers of broken grout.
The lockdowns brought repair and construction of the footpath to a halt. During this lull in productivity and progress casts were collected to admire the well-used areas we travel through, to acknowledge and contemplate the beauty of worn complexities, and explore the idea that meaningful production should be a subset of care…
Theo Reeves-Evison describes in his essay Surface Fictions an artifact and popular attraction at South London’s Horniman Museum; a walrus that was taxidermied without any image reference or personal experience or sighting, by a nineteenth-century taxidermist…
This video work slowly crushes folded paper ‘fortune tellers’ – cootie catchers, chatterboxes, whirlybirds or paku-paku – hand folded paper objects used by children to predict the future.
A fictional scenario that imagines a future civilisation reconstructing these works as found artefacts. The works are discovered and dislodged from sedimentary layers, unearthed from the ground and pieced together…
