Substrata

The work consists of a stack of hand built gabion baskets filled with collected materials from the landscape. Chalk, flint, brick, concrete, plastic, metal, earth and moss. It explores geological time and references human impact on the fossil record as well as geo-engineering and the climate emergency. The materials contained within the gabion structure were all collected in the same location over a number of years and form a version of the “non-site”, as pioneered by Robert Smithson. The plastic detritus comes from recreational vehicles. It is layered with the brick and concrete and pokes through the living layers of mud, leaf mould and moss. An assemblage of materials, gravity and recreation.