Symbiotic Presence
Limestone, paper plant leaves and snail feces. MFA Degree Show Exhibition (2024)
Stones are fragments of land. Some are kept raw and untouched, and some are shaped, carved and cut. This work observes the tangency between limestones and kinetic beings such as humans, machines, plants and snails. A pair (left) were transformed from a sculpting workshop on the west side of Oxford, to the Bishop’s Garden near Wolfson College, where they were placed for the entire spring season of 2024, and the other pair (right) were found in the studio space and wrapped by a paper plant given to me by curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden. The latter pair is inspired my daughter’s habit of wrapping pebbles with plants and offering them as gifts.