| Procession [Intertidal] |

CORNICE/FLOTSAM 


September - October 2024

Cornices are embellished separations between wall and ceiling. These boundaries through their complexity, may come to accumulate debris over time (e.g. in the aftermath of redecoration) becoming layered with the repetitive arrival and departure of people. In this way they may take on properties of a domestic intertidal zone. ‘Intertidal’ makes reference to the ecological habitat partitioning land and sea, which is subject to ‘extreme ecological stress’ and is the home to  some of the most resilient and adaptive organisms on earth. ‘Extreme’ feels incongruent with knowledge that daily tidal changes are predictable and can appear mundane and even serene.


The series ‘[in my room]’ depicts collages formed out of printed
desk debris to adorn printed versions of the cornices of my bedroom, using the metaphor of intertidal to continue to probe the repetitive cycle between states of object and image in my practice.
















‘[in my room]’ collages on scanner, each 15 x 10 cm

*[Interior damp]











Material experiments 
‘Organised Trash’ card box and mixed media debris 30 x 11 cm

‘Holdfast’  Gunwalloe Beach Cornwall 18.06.24.








Stretching seaweed and latex above scanner


CORNICE/FLOTSAM is materially resolved in works suspended in unclear materiality and tension, finding the tide-line at my own home to be a state of dilemma with material a resemblance to skirting boards and haphazard domestic repairs. ‘A Series of Delays’ responds to the 1914 painting ‘Network of Stoppages’ with a similar element of chance held in the spontaneous breakage and release of fixed rubber bands. As the bands disappear across edges it becomes clear that their state is suspended between multiple fixings over different faces.

‘A Series of Delays’ mixed media (wood, staples, rubberbands, pencil and wall paint) 40 x 29 x 12 cm

‘Material Memory’ images washed, dried on radiator, and folded (10 x 15 cm prints)
‘HOLDFAST [intertidal]’ plaster of paris, rubber bands and air-drying clay, 15 x 12 x 11 cm, next to initial prototype 2 x 4 x 3 cm