A Surface, Interrupted

A Surface, Interrupted explores what happens when the continuity of a familiar textile surface is disrupted. Created from deadstock synthetic fur, the work uses heat to alter, remove and reshape areas of the material, allowing its original softness and density to coexist with sections that have contracted, fused or disappeared.

Rather than concealing this process of transformation, the work retains evidence of different material states. Remnants of recognisable fur sit alongside exposed and eroded areas, creating a surface that appears simultaneously constructed and in the process of breaking down. Burnt ochre, brown and darker passages evoke associations with scorched vegetation, peat, bark or weathered ground, without resolving into any single reading.

The work emerged through direct material experimentation rather than from a predetermined image. Heat becomes a means of drawing into and through the textile, interrupting its manufactured uniformity and allowing unexpected forms to develop.

A Surface, Interrupted considers the instability of material identity. A petrochemical-derived textile, originally manufactured to imitate an animal surface, begins through transformation to suggest something geological or organic. The interruption therefore becomes both physical and perceptual: a point at which one material identity gives way, without another ever becoming completely certain.