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The natural environment
feeds the imaginative processes in my head, enabling me to visualise
as aesthetic role for my work which deals with individual aspects
of nature and our involvement with it. The manipulation of nature's
structures and patterns creates a new narrative. A major part of my
practice is the use of sketchbooks and learning as a space to meditate
on and develop an understanding of who I am and where my journey is taking
me.
I have a passionate love affair with the earth. The soil
and the millions of life forms within it, which create symbiotic relationships
and networks to support one another, are a constant source of inspiration.
The work in the degree show is a representation of my thoughts
on our environment, where capitalist regimes thwart the idea of growth
and natural resources, exploiting the environment for an immediate
wealth. In the case of the individual saplings showing growth and potential
once they have escaped the boundaries of the Dogrose thorns, there is
an example of the possibilities of moving forward with respect and inclusion
of nature's laws.
The actual surface of the earth is becoming a more definite
area of interest to me in multiple ways: how we care for it or abuse
it its perfect state in a rush of commercial competition. My recent thoughts
have been about our peat moors and the intervention of wind turbines,
which change the foundations that they stand upon. I hope to investigate
this more over the summer.
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