land art
Hollow Imprint 2025
This site-specific work engages with sand, stone, and human trace, where footprints mark time, movement, and presence. Two large rocks evoke the contours of a body: one, hollowed, bears weight and absence, while the other grounds the form, suggesting continuity, emergence, and life cycles. Smaller stones and footprints trace gestures and relational patterns responding to both human and natural rhythms.
The sculpture explores traces, movement, and the passage of time, evoking remnants, memory, and existence. It highlights voids, shifting sands, and ecological temporality, revealing the relational pulse and ephemeral rhythms of the place.
Autumn, Briefly Becoming 2024
This ephemeral installation unfolds on a rain-soaked wooden boardwalk, where autumn leaves are gently arranged across its surface. Water gathers on the timber, transforming it into a reflective plane in which sky and bare trees reflect themselves.
Already in transition, the leaves rest lightly upon the boardwalk, their fragile bodies carried by wind and water. Rain disperses and shifts them. What begins as a deliberate arrangement gradually yields to chance, collaboration, and ecological process.
Footsteps, rainfall, gravity, and air currents participate in its becoming. The mirrored sky and skeletal branches evoke a quiet inversion: earth becomes sky; surface becomes threshold.
As the rain subsides and the leaves scatter, the installation dissolves, leaving only traces, damp impressions, and memory. The piece exists within the passing of weather and season, revealing a tender, transient dialogue between human gesture and the more-than-human rhythms of weather and season.
Heartwood 2023
Heartwood draws together fallen and cut branches, arranged like a heart or an embrace around a rooted system, with limbs reaching outward and inward, allowing them to decay and return to the environment. The sculpture traces the subtle interplay between human intervention and natural processes, between care, disruption, and the cycles of life.
It explores ephemerality, decay, and the temporality of time, as each branch darkens, shifts, and slowly reintegrates into its surroundings. In this unfolding, the work reveals the relational pulse of natural systems, where living and non-living elements exist in flux, interconnected, transient, and constantly negotiating between presence, absence, and transformation. Heartwood is both a form and a process, a quiet embrace of life, death, and becoming, rooted in the rhythms of ecosystems.
Salinity Returned 2021
This site-specific work is an act of remembrance. Tears are gathered over time and carried to a rockpool on the cliff tops once climbed with a loved one.
The act is simple, almost imperceptible, yet charged with memory. The rockpool holds sky, wind, and tide within its shallow basin, both contained and open, shaped by erosion and repetition. Situated within this coastal terrain, the gesture is inseparable from place. Into this tidal threshold, grief is released, not as spectacle but as continuity.
In a quiet gesture, saltwater returns to salt water. Tears carry the chemistry of the body, the trace of love, and the weight of absence. Returning them to the cliff acknowledges cycles larger than the self: evaporation, rain, tide, and breath. What is shed in sorrow becomes indistinguishable from the vastness that surrounds it.
The work engages ritual, ecology, and embodied memory, transforming mourning into a relational exchange between body and landscape, intimacy and immensity. Loss is not resolved but dispersed, held within rock, tide, and horizon
Becoming with the Leaves 2019
Becoming with the Leaves is a temporal, site-responsive exploration of the mutual responsiveness between inner and outer ecologies. Leaves are arranged in a circle on moss-lined cobblestones, a provisional emblem of continuity and living systems. Wind enters as collaborator, dispersing the leaves and returning them to their own trajectories. The circle trembles, shifts, and dissolves, while seasonal colour marks time and change. The work unfolds as a study in co-emergence between human intention and more-than-human agency.
This entanglement is lived reciprocally: leaves respond to wind; the body responds to movement; perception adjusts to subtle shifts in light and tone. Through this choreography of drift and release, the piece reflects emotional rebalancing. Inner states mirror ecological rhythms, gathering, holding, loosening, release. Rather than treating nature as backdrop, the work attends to relational entanglement: how selfhood emerges through contact with shifting environments.
The fading circle signals transformation rather than loss, a recalibration within cycles of decay and regeneration. In dispersal, becoming is shared, human and more-than-human unfold together through care, movement, and cyclical reciprocity.
