A Medusan eruption with accusatory snake heads forms a bladed nest around the rarest of eggs; glass conceived in a fissile inferno. It appears to both seethe and protect as the petals unfold.
Supporting the masthead is a delicate striation of stalks and roots stroked with almost calligraphic elan. Blackened and without leaves, drawing nourishment from sources unseen. The eye travels the various trajectories offered but smooth curvature of the central structure creates a strong verticality. A vision of a personage nonetheless standing erect and alert.
Placed within a domestic setting, culturally specific and cloistered yet at the same time expansive. The ample gaps between the metal are interpolated by the background panelling and its soft illumination.
There is a wonderful sense of minified beauty; a condensation to a skeletal impression. A story of great destructive horror and life's insistent response that it must continue to regenerate.
the verdancy rose even from
the foundations of ruined houses.
... wild flowers were in bloom
among the city’s bones.
The bomb had not only left
the underground organs
of the plants intact;
it had stimulated them.
John Hersey
Hiroshima (1946)
Part of a group exhibition 2025 MFA programme at Goldsmiths UAL.
