Single channel digital video with original soundtrack, 5 min 06 sec, 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 poetic moments of urban decay ripple out, visible through the ever-expanding mask of concrete—the mark of empire building since Roman times, now exposed for interpretation.

Response text by Inga Fillary to ‘mā-tər ma-tər’, a group exhibition at Silo6 featuring four experimental moving image works, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, August 2022

Excerpt:

“Natalie Tozer’s practice circles the compounded autobiography of materials and questions the validity of reshaping the world in our own image. She presents video works in which, by collecting, documenting and deciphering the findings of the complex underland beneath our feet, Tozer hopes to gather enough data to learn something. “I like to reach out in the dark, to gaze into a possible future and let the practice reveal the rest”.