Otherescope
2020

Otherescope enacts the conditions for care within and across species. The work performs on two time-scales; in this moment it illustrates the notion of I-Thou, that is the reciprocal encounter of another, whether human, or other-than-human. At a deeper-time perspective it allows the viewer to both dissolve their boundaries and perceived separation from ’Nature' and spend time transformed into and connected to our other-than-human kin, honouring the continual exchange of matter and energy on this planet.

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.

In collaboration with Neuroscientist Professor Joel Pearson from Future Mind Labs and Canberra Glassworks.

Commissioned by the Powerhouse Museum for Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes, curated by Stephen Todd – Creative Director Sydney Design Week 2020, and Keinton Butler – Senior Curator Museum Applied Arts and Sciences.

Glass artists Kirstie Rea (vessel), Peter Nilsson (hand-carved mirror.

Frame by Tom Rowney, Jon Ely and Georgena James

Owl calls captured by Paul Van Gaal

Sincere thanks to my collaborators above as well as Andrew Kirk and Aimee Frodsham.

Photographs 1 and 2 by Zan Wimberley

Photograph 3 Kirky