Cross-section of time, map of wonder and the egg of a wren
2022

We are old, very, very old. Not the ‘I’, but the matter that makes us. These cells that we borrow to be ‘us’ have been a part of the ongoing Earthly exchange of matter and energy since the planet pulled themselves together. 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘮𝘢𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘨𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘯⁣ slips passed any hierarchy of materials, illustrating the entanglement of planetary processes and giving all things in their current form agency to be - in relation to us and each other. Recalibrating to the reality of what we are gives us a moment to dissolve into the polytemporal states that we simultaneously occupy and the cellular cosmology that that offers.⁣

brass, faux fur, acrylic medium 150 x 111 cm

Made in Mparntwe Alice Springs with the grateful assistance of James B. Young.

Photos Fiona Storey courtesy of Sophie Gannon Gallery

First shown through Sophie Gannon Gallery at Melbourne Design Fair, 2022

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From Designing Mythology

Designing Mythology is a questioning and proposal for old ways / new to exist as humans, using the process of 'mything' to reorientate back towards the planet, and recalibrate our value systems by dismantling the current shadow metaphors of the Western-colonial worldview. It proposes the restorying of scientific perspectives to offer a cosmology that includes humans as part of the living world whilst simultaneously removing us from the centre. Thus a recognition and return, via a circuitous route, to the worldviews, deep connection and sustainment of the first peoples of our planet.