On Thin Soil. Oak.

The work is an upscaled iteration of On Thin Soil. Beech 2023. This piece uses an oak sapling rooted in layers of plastic waste found on the artist's daily walk in The South Downs National Park. The detritus is the byproduct of recreation, agri-business and fly-tipping and the work forms part of an ongoing series of sculptures concerned with soil depletion, plastic pollution and the legacy of the Anthropocene in the fossil record. Time is a crucial ingredient. Tree-growing time, materials-collecting time and fossil-making time.