Hover

The objective of this Masters degree is to produce a body of work that looks at the effect of man’s intervention on the environment, resulting in countless extinct species with many more hovering on the brink. My constructed realities are a consequence of human impositions on the natural environment. The interruption of natural habitats has occurred on a monumental scale. To presume that we can continue to produce more and more waste is to be disconnected with the reality of the environment; there are no innocent bystanders.Five major installations have been created as part of my research, ‘Expose’, ‘Capture’, ‘Bleach’, ‘Bloom’ and ‘Choke’. These installations engage in dialogues that surround consumption and production.In constructing these installations I am not attempting to coerce the viewer into dramatically changing their habits, but merely suggesting that we should rethink our actions so that the consequences become positive rather than negative.The use of detritus has become a conversation about who we are and the impact we are having on our aquatic environment. Humans need to consider nature as a fundamental part of the human value system and believe that the future of our environment will be created by the quality of the present. Environmental ethics has become a strong consideration in my work, as my practice is centred on the critical paradigm of the interaction between humans their environment and the resulting annihilation of species. I hope that through my installations viewers may gain an insight into the form and history of human impact on the environment.My work remains tied to the idea of non-reusable discarded materials, translating the transient to the timeless as a testament to the complexity of assessing and valuing objects. It is not possible to reverse the damage already done, to bring back extinct species , but there are many more species hovering on the brink that can be saved