Attentive Encounters (2015)
"In the culture we call materialistic, today we are of course bent on the total destruction of material and its conversion into junk and poisonous gases. This is of course not a materialistic culture because it has no respect for material."
–Allan Watts
Central to my work and this project is the idea of a sustainable relationship between the self and its environment, with the intention to engage 'more attentive encounters between people and materialities...'1 To that end this work explores the idea of recultivating a sense of reverence for the natural world and its finite resources.
1 Bennett, Jane.Vibrant Matter – A political ecology of things: Duke University Press, 2010
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Swamp Kauri, Reclaimed Stg. silver, Stg. silver ball chain, Coal & Beeswax. -
Swamp Kauri, Reclaimed Stg. silver, Stg. silver ball chain, Stainless steel & Beeswax. -
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Swamp Kauri, Reclaimed Stg silver, Stg. silver ball chain, Coke coal, Stainless steel & Beeswax -
Swamp Kauri, Reclaimed Stg silver, Stg. silver ball chain & Beeswax -
Reclaimed cedar hanging device -
Wunderweek Pop-up show in response to Wunderruma exhibition -
100% Organic cotton t-shirts produced by the Freeset project. Women in India who are trapped in the prostitution trade are given the opportunity to choose a new job and are retrained. They become empowered with the choice of leaving a profession they never chose in the first place. ...and they regain their F-R-E-E-D-O-M -
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