the world is made of relative
2021

The matter that we are, that makes all that we know, has been collected together and tended to by deep time. Caressed, shepherded, woven into forms, known and otherwise. How do we give prominence to the ‘beingness’ of matter? To understand the ancient kinship of everything that makes ‘Earth’. Can we invert our gaze so that we see earth as one entity the same way we know the moon? Maybe gravity is an expression of that familial omnipresent commitment… Can we be more attentive to our own porosity to know that all matter is in constant relationship to its neighbour - shifting, transforming, warping, wefting. Our edges blending and blurring, constant imperceptible exchange. These bodies we think of as ‘ours’ are just borrowed, a passing arrangement (agreement?) of molecules. (There is a strange dissolving feeling that accompanies this idea of ‘mistyness’.)

Through the ever-lasting weaving of matter and the unbearably fleeting livingness of this moment, the world is made of relative, known and otherwise.

'A moment as mirror (i) - (iix)'
Acrylic, mirror (some with plywood)
(various / approx) 72 x 70cm

'A moment as mirror (ix) - (xiv)'
Acrylic, mirror (some with plywood)
(various / approx) 50 x 46cm

'Knots of exchange (i) - (iii)'
Acrylic, mirror (some with plywood)
(various / approx) 30 x 24cm

Shown at RAFT Artspace August 13 - September 4

All enquiries via gallery.

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.