The Nature of Wilderness

This work is informed by time spent immersed in places of beauty and observing the tension revealed in the disruption of ecologies, by the marks of industrial impact; of wilderness creeks distorted by oil slicks that gleam through ancient forests. The relationship between wilderness and industry is explored through binary associations that resonate this tension. Pairings of light, hand formed paper sheets, imbued with an index of nature, unfold across heavy green, infiltrated with industrial pigment. The work foregrounds materiality, through processes that explore how industrial activity transforms the natural world. Through the paper pulp printing process, an imprint is physically embedded in the paper substrate, symbolising the impact of porosity. Deconstructing flax textiles to form paper, evokes a sensibility of warp and weft structure and its resemblance to tangled networks of nature. Interwoven threads of matter, mark and interrelate, a constant dialectic between nature and industry.