Chicxulub

Enamel paint on wood. 21.5 x 19.5 x 1.7cm. Part of an ongoing series of works that combine text and pattern to explore associations between words and their visual manifestation. The works often draw upon words or phrases that hold a particular personal resonance or meaning to myself as maker, that may be cryptic or inaccessible to the external viewer. Resembling signs or plaques, the act of making becomes a form of memorialisation, similar to a votive object. The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It was formed by a large asteroid striking the Earth around 66 million years ago, leading to worldwide climate disruption and causing the mass extinction of 75% of the plant and animal species on Earth.