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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

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