Fault Lines is a series of work developed through my exploration of ready-made, found, and land-based materials. The paper studies and portraits are a result of experimenting and observing how these materials behave in unexpected ways. Their reactive nature is a reminder that everything is alive and we are all part of a greater network of existence. The flour paste symbolises our impermanence, the copper acetate is a powerful catalyst of change, the egg represents the womb and the cycle of life, and the sand is from my mother, a symbol of home. I brought these materials together to create work about the present moment and living with and between worlds - the natural and the human-made.

The work is process driven, focused on intentional and spontaneous making. The mixing of unexpected outcomes and stories of shared living and becoming-with unfold. As an artist-educator, I feel compelled to reimagine my practice and the creative tools and materials I work with in this time of the Anthropocene. We must keep venturing into worlds we haven’t been before, calling upon historical and unexplored materials that speak to our individual and collective journey in this present moment. I am embracing the fleeting nature of making art that is dying on its own scale of time. In the words of Donna Haraway, I will grieve with this work that I am making, as “grief is a path to understanding entangled shared living and dying; we must grieve with, because we are in and of this fabric of undoing.”