Ice Receding/Books Reseeding emphasizes the necessity of communal effort and scientific knowledge to deal with the complex issues of climate disruption and watershed restoration by releasing seed-laden ephemeral ice sculptures into rivers. I work with stream ecologists, biologists, and botanists to ascertain the best seeds for each specific riparian zone. When an ecosystem is restored …
A forest has been planted in Norway, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in 100 years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unread and unpublished, until the year 2114. The manuscripts will be presented in …
Ice Watch Olafur Elliasson, born in 1967, is a Danish- Icelandic sculptor and installation artist who focuses on the human experience involving elemental materials to comment upon the anthropogenic era. Ice Watch (2015) by Elliasson consists of 12 ice bergs that broke off from the Greenland ice sheet. The blocks are arranged in a circular …
What worked? The melting of ice upon sugar paper had many unexpected outcomes. The initial unexpectance was that the paper didn’t dissolve in its entirety but became a jelly like substance whilst wet then hardened to its original form when dried out. The melting did manipulate the colours of the print thereby making it more abstract and had …
The panels of progression creates a clear line of narrative with the obstruction of the foreground becoming a clearer frame showing the content of the glass house.The 4 frames become a picture board to show the effects of the appreciation and intrigue of nature. Oct 19, 2020
“Occasionally, the viewer is presented with a glimpse of architectural functionality and a rogue tendril or two straining to escape from a cracked pane or vent. Overwhelmingly however, these spaces and these photographs are transporting and dreamlike, presenting as they do a controlled, idealised version of nature at odds with the often scruffy — but …
Rewilding the natural places becomes a sanction for nature. The reintroduction of native flora enable habitat restoration for species and an abundance of life to enter the ecosystem. The fog creates an unveiling of towering pines intimidating the viewer and staking their place and power within the environment. Oct …
Oct 18, 2020
Don’t Tap the Glass, you’ll disturb their slumber. Though, they won’t stir, that press has effect. Not that anyone will know The wait of that touch extends beyond your memory- the trauma of the tactility, scars and broken bones. The consideration not of the being. …
Pierre Huyghe focus of producing working alternative to a human perspective presenting them as complex systems themselves as complex systems characterised by a wide range of life forms, inanimate objects and technologies. He produces immersive work surrounding the ever changing environment; incoporating how humans animals and other adapt and evolve. ‘I don’t want to exhibit something …
Oct 11, 2020
‘Human-driven and natural loss of trees —deforestation— affects wildlife, ecosystems, weather patterns, and even the climate.’ – National Geographic Deforestation – Decrease Carbon Absorption – Increase in Greenhouse Gasses – Global Warming – Glacial Melting This is a series of photographs taken through out the experiment of ice melting over flora images printed onto sugar paper. The experimental process …
Oct 11, 2020
To visualise life before the climate crisis we would need to adapt our current life style, live sustainably and accommodate biodiversity. With the rate of deforestation and population growth, anthropogenic exhaustion of the worlds natural resources and production of greenhouse gasses will be the cause of the 6th mass extinction. We are on the precipice …
‘In a single lifetime we have gore into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers, We manage three quarters of all land outside ice sheets. Greenhouse gas levels this high have not been seen for over one million years. Temperatures are increasing. …
Vatnajökull (the sound of) 2007–08 A live phone line was created to an Icelandic glacier, via an underwater microphone submerged in Jökulsárlón lagoon, an outlet of Vatnajökull. The number 07757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, and the listener would hear the sound of the glacier melting. Oct 1, 2020
This experimental photographic image was taken of farmed pine trees in the Cairngorm National Park. Anthropogenic deforestation has lead to a huge decrease of native trees with the Scottish landscape. Following the retreat of the ice age, the flora and fauna was flourishing within the Highlands; inhabiting species included Salmon, Elk Wild Boar, Beavers …
Marco Kesseler has an ongoing photography project where he focuses his practice on exploring the conditions created by the controlled polytunnel environments. It unveils the hidden landscapes within the food productions focusing upon the themes of control and chaos. “In the polytunnel, the seasons are stretched and softened under the polythene skin and minute …
Whilst visiting many different gardens and botanical landscapes, I noticed the juxtaposition between the man made structures and the flora formations. Manmade constructions conforming to architectural needs vs Natural structure observe the necessity to photosynthesis. Sep 28, 2020
I am going to use ice and water to manipulate prints. The unknown outcome will represent how a controlled environment, e.g rainforest management, deforestation and agricultural maintenance, has uncontrolled effects and outcomes. The use of ice will relate to glacial melting, hopefully by bleeding the ink from the original print onto watercolour paper, causing an …
