This photo was taken in Royal Leamington Spa, where the central lawn bears vast rectangular imprints—silent traces of human ambition, boldly inscribed upon the earth, as if to claim every inch of nature for use. 22.7.2024
Ivy weaves up the London plane,
shielding as it strangles.
A tender violence.
In nature, symbiosis and parasitism often share a skin-
which are we,
in our bond with the earth:
companions, or intruders?
The film Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018) has been a significant source of inspiration for my project Earth Nidus, both visually and conceptually. In this film, uncertainty and mutation are the true themes of this alianated world. While uncertainty reflects a human centred anxiety towards the unkown, mutation represents a fundamental logic of the world itself-one that is self-assured, non-anthropocentric, and inherently resist to control. In this sense, mutation may be the only certainty in this ever-shifting ecology. The spontaneous gesture of clay.
Soft, Slow,
It captures somethings we’ve forgotten.