Springtides Archipelago / Tools for Times to Come
Nonsequences, g39, March 2021
Springtides Archipelago / Tools for Times to Come are phrases I have been working with in order to create a framework for my practice going forward. This work is one way of bringing these ideas into form.
Like a set, the objects sit waiting to be activated, brought to life, transformed.
Islands that can change shape, plasticine that can be re-formed through the warmth of the body, marbles with their own agenda, salt which can absorb or create mineral transformation within the body, a plant which could wilt or thrive.
The fictional islands offer themselves up as sites for exploration, islands that slip between times. Sites of bridges, watchtowers, tidal waves and myth. All things can live here. They are polychronic and all seeing. On the periphery, in the depths, maybe Here Be Monsters.
The beeswax plasticine objects act as thresholds of worlds, arenas for ritual, the processing of a shared pandemic (and more). Who are we now that we have come (and are coming) through this? What new ways of living are beginning to emerge? What new spaces are needed to process trauma in community?
The never-to-hatch eggs are from my children’s play food basket. The marbles, plasticine and hag stones are theirs too. The multi-function wheeled objects, made by carpenter Eifion Porter, were designed in relationship to my body.
