The lithic, the liminal and the lines that bind
2023
Bronze, stone, glass, steel

I’ve been trying to find a word that describes how the combined effort of entities, quarks, atoms, molecules allows for the shifts of matter from one scale to the next. That it is the collaboration, or the combining, the collective that makes the world, from one nested-scale* to the next. While we have been practicing atomisation through categorisation, enacting the ‘nature as machine’ metaphor, it’s actually the relationship that deserves more kudos. Lynn Margulis knew it.

This is also the story of a snail. While Weaver warps and wefts, making all the patterns we feel, smell, know, touch, she uses the silver threads of the snail to hold matter together. The snail, with instructions inscribed in their shell, is able to move through, along, within many nested-scales simultaneously, leaving shimmery threads in their wake.

* I’d like a word for that too; concentric contexts?

First shown through Sophie Gannon Gallery at Melbourne Design Fair 2023

All enquiries via Sophie Gannon Gallery.

Photos taken onsite at RAFT Artspace, Mparntwe, Alice Springs

Bronze clamps made with the assistance of Michael Vaynman

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.