Arts Thread

"Technofossil"; objects manufactured specifically for human use, to facilitate or enhance contemporary existence, and having outlasted their useful function, are thoughtlessly discarded into the environment. Like fossils, these objects will become embedded in currently forming geological strata leaving traces of themselves.
 Geologists have already used these objects to propose a name for our era, calling it the "Anthropocene" (trans. the human epoch).
 In the process of making the work I am able to decontextualize these objects and subvert their function by casting; reproducing sections in clay, then applying them to the surface of my hand-built forms. The sculptures themselves are an amalgamation of the familiar and unfamiliar. Once produced, my ceramic creations become petrified (an anticipation of our story told in rock), a vision or premonition serving as a message to a future beyond our knowledge. Inert objects in the environment; impermeable, persistent, permanent, outliving me to tell a story of our failed relationship with our Earth. A warning of a post-apocalyptic world where, through human activity, life on earth has vanished and all that remains are enigmatic ghostly traces of our long-gone 'civilisation'.