How the pieces settle /2025 - Ongoing


How the pieces settle is an ongoing body of work that gravitates around ideas of belonging, temporality, and our connection to the landscape. It reflects on a previous work, ‘Synthetic Feeling’, which examines the relationship between plastic and the psyche. Plastic symbolises dissonance and disconnection, reflecting its fragility and transparency. It both conceals and reveals, echoing tension between emotional vulnerability and the desire for protection. Within these works, I incorporate self-portraits screen-printed onto plastic bags, to show a physical and emotional connection to the landscape. This self-representation feels crucial, as the project reflects on inner landscapes and anxiety, self portraiture acts as a confrontation of this discomfort.

The work is situated in two locations: London and the intertidal zone of the Isle of Wight, where I spent my childhood. The intertidal zone—an area affected by the movement of tides—serves as a metaphor for the fluidity of identity and the constant desire of belonging. I am drawn to the zone's cyclical, queer, ever-changing nature. Using alternative printing methods such as Polaroid emulsion and screenprint I aim to explore this transitional space between land and sea.

All artefacts were found on the Isle of Wight.




             
Artefact 1 - Self portarit, Polaroid emulsion on wooden stump (2025)    






                                       
Artefact 2 - Self portarit, Polaroid emulsion on pebble (2025)


Artefact 3 - Self portarit, Polaroid emulsion on wooden log (2025)