Archival giclee print on di-bond, 33.5 x 80cm, limited edition of 5 + 2 AP
This photographic work was shown as part of the solo exhibition "This Fearsome Drop" at Stockroom Kyneton in March and April 2024. Emerging from an accident in the studio, in which I inadvertently smashed an artistic experiment, it suddenly exposed an entirely new direction for the work (one of those magical moments that so rarely happens in studio practice). This moment was the catalyst for both this work and the subsequent “Remnant Act Three” and “Remnant Acts (2054 to 2101)”. The resulting works filled the missing link that I had been struggling with in the exhibition, enabling more explicit connections with the ideas I had been toying with: of how we literally keep things alive – foetuses, children, eco-systems, humankind. About standing on the edge of climate collapse. About our insatiable drive for technology and its increasing creep into the deepest of evolutionary impetuses: the drive to procreate. Of how a single moment, a single drop of matter, can lead to a whole life – an entire potential for love, care, power, destruction and joy.
Technical assistance provided by Jem Selig Freeman.