Humankind is posited as the pivot around which the balance of the human and the non-human turns. Yet the pivot is itself founded in one of the most potent myths of modernity... Paradoxically, an approach which purports to dismantle the distinction between the human and the non-human, and to level the playing field, is justified on the grounds that in their manner of engagement with material things, and in the progressive history of that engagement, human beings are radically distinct from all other living kinds... The truth is that in a more-than-human world, nothing exists in isolation... It is a condition of life that everything leaks, and nothing is locked in.

Ingold 2020, Correspondences p.6-7


This text instigated me to reflect on  my ‘way of art’  in terms of materials, concepts and contexts. Adopting an experimental approach, I aimed to listen and observe the work informing its own concept and aesthetic. I would have never thought of this process as correspondence with my work or the world, but gradually I learnt to value my position as a co-author with these ‘more than human’ energies.  The artworks below include the materials/media I entered in correspondence with, a variety dictated by the ideas and the work itself. The outlined order is  indicative of the timeline.

JC




paint | drawing / painting  | from 2008
wood | tixref  | 2010
glass | shards of zen series | from 2011
paint | cyclical | 2011
wood | 05003034 | 2010
light | lumen series | 2010
paint + fieldwork | http:// |  2011
portraiture | għidli ma’ min | 2012
site | 77 | 2011
light | constant | 2012
sight | OD  OS |  2011
paint | stratum  series | from 2012
paint | residuum  series | from 2012
paint | depositum series | from 2014
paint | reliquum  series | 2017
text | untitled |  from 2016
wood + glass | imċaqlaq series | from 2017

paint + wood | mgħotti series |  from 2017
geopositioning | antipode  series | from 2019
paper | mimsus | 2021
sound + light | pictured at rest series | from 2020
sound + time | stabat metric | 2020
sound | ikħal | 2023


     

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