Postcards from the rocks
Postcards from the rocks is a series of collages which developed from the project Rocks that do things. They explore the role of rock in the 21st century – particularly its relationship to capitalism – through excavated imagery of quarries, mines, bodies, teeth, machinery, stone, and text.
how i wrested a wild-oat seed from its husk
i am not sure what i am but i know it isn't granite
it is the story that makes the difference
nothing whatever results and nothing whatever is changed
it sometimes seems as though the story is approaching its end
is to repress change and encounter
precarity as an earthwide condition
the average prehistoric person could make a nice living in about a fifteen-hour work week
the stars and moon and the rocks were there
even though we have not seen it, we all know what a volcano is
everybody has seen rain falling
i am not interested in sucking and am not hungry
a possible overspill of tenderness
i do try to oblige
boundary objects
enjoy illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks
as we fret at the edge of a toxic puddle
the cul-de-sacs were named after the fields
if the moon was formed in this fashion
the only way to create scalability
so i place them on what is beautiful in this world
the advice is the gift that comes with the mushroom
These collages use Rishi Sunak's words from the gov.uk press release about new North Sea oil and gas licences in November 2022.
October 2023-present
exhibited: After Winter Must Come Spring, Daisy Laing (March - May 2024); Here and Now, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery (May-June 2025); Discussion, Wharfside Art Hub (June 2025); Ruin Gazing, ALMA Artspace (September-October 2025); All Utopias, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange (January-March 2026)