The set up for assessment. Seeing it all together and reflecting on the work now, I am happy with the direction that I have gone in with it. I began with ideas around interdependence in nature, how everything is connected to each other, because I wanted to expound the importance of this to people in a visual way so that it could be felt - that was the seaweed and the web - however this idea broadened over the weeks as I thought more about the reasons and feeling behind why this is important to me, why I think it's so fundamental to how we should understand our lives and our relationship to world - existence.
My interest in the human the figure comes from a deeper interest in understanding human life, and the visual of the figure most strongly resonates as what can bring us to contemplate this to me - to question our conscious experience as either emergent from the material world, the view that I lean toward, or as fundamental to the world as matter. So understanding the plurality of possible consciousnesses, or aspects of what constitutes different types and degrees of consciousnesses, is essential to understanding life. In either case I want to depict the body as of the earth, made of earth-stuff which will reconfigure itself into other forms and other beings in the cycle of life. Hence, the body is geological.
To see ourselves in this context also brings more immediacy to our relationship with the land, cultivation and technology. Questions around dwelling, locality and resource use arise here, and further, the problems of historicisation and power. This line of thought is where I want to go with my work in the future.
I'm not sure how much of this thought has been evident in the work here, but it is not so much these exact thoughts I want to stir in people as it is to share with people this feeling I have of connectedness with earth/existence and an openness to the building of new ways of connecting with being itself which may orient how we live.











