Topography (Yellow)

Topography (Yellow) emerged from an encounter between stone, textile and heat. Industrially knitted cords, incorporating a thermoplastic fibre, are melted across the surface of a locally gathered rock. As the material softens and contracts, it settles into the contours of the stone, tracing its ridges, depressions and irregularities.

The resulting form resembles a geological map, a skin, or a system of markings laid across the landscape. Its fluorescent yellow surface recalls warning signs, temporary boundaries and human interventions that seek to order, measure or control the environment. Yet the knitted structure simultaneously follows the stone's own topography, becoming shaped by the material it covers.

The work draws upon the legacy of environmental art while reflecting upon a contemporary landscape transformed by synthetic matter. Where earlier interventions often celebrated a distinction between culture and nature, Topography (Yellow) suggests a world in which such boundaries have become increasingly unstable. The petrochemical textile does not sit apart from the rock but becomes entangled with it, creating a hybrid form that is both geological and manufactured.

Balancing beauty with unease, Topography (Yellow) considers how the materials of everyday life are becoming part of the physical fabric of the environments we inhabit, leaving traces that may persist long beyond their intended use.