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Dust of Stars

A site-specific installation made in situ at Hatch, Somerset, a disused chicken barn. The work addressed the theme ‘Death and Microwaves’.

Scrap, reused, found, discarded and recycled materials: wood, metals, wire, rope, twine, cables, glass, plastic, miscellaneous debris and objects. Some found in the barn.

2023

Dust of Stars questions what is waste, dead, no longer of value. We throw away so much. In this work I look at the bigger picture, existential questions, the magnitude of our universe, its persistence, and the fact - we are told - that all of life is made from the dust of stars made billions of years ago.  ‘The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff’ (Carl Sagan).

I am interested in line, and the complex web of relationships from micro to macro.  To me line denotes energy - an ongoing process of becoming…  and everything is connected..

For more information about this work see my talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Dj0q8XscM&t=95s

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