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Earth Nidus

An imagined ecology growing through the encounter of clay, metal mesh and manufactured materials. Urban plants and entangled fences inform a world continuing beyond human intentions.

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Mutation — shares theme
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a mutated world continuing to grow beyond human intentions
Earth Nidus — series statement
Nonhuman Agency — shares theme
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take nonhuman objects and their relations seriously
Earth Nidus — series statement
Industrial Ecology — shares theme
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materials from nature and industry meet without one simply representing or serving the other
Earth Nidus — series statement
Growth — shares theme
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plants growing through cracks, branches entangled with metal fences
Earth Nidus — series statement
Speculative Landscape — shares theme
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Across the works, this imagined ecology takes different forms
Earth Nidus — series statement
Uncertainty — shares theme
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nests or inhabitable spaces whose occupants remain unknown
Earth Nidus — series statement
Object-Oriented Ontology — informed by
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Object-Oriented Ontology has informed my attempt to look beyond the human use of things
Earth Nidus — series statement

Oscillating

Repeated firings allow heat, shrinkage, melting and fracture to redirect intention. Forms move between geological residue, industrial debris and something bodily.

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Oscillating 4 — → belongs to
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Nonhuman Agency — shares theme
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material behaviour can redirect intention
Oscillating — series statement
Industrial Ecology — shares theme
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between geological residue, industrial debris, and something bodily
Oscillating — series statement
Material Witness — shares theme
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recording the pressures and movements produced by its encounters with metal
Oscillating — series statement
Extraction — shares theme
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a wound, a shelter, or a place of extraction
Oscillating — series statement
Uncertainty — shares theme
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their possible functions become uncertain
Oscillating — series statement
Speculative Landscape — shares theme
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groups of bodies at one distance and fragments of terrain at another
Oscillating — series statement

From Under the Sea

Marine pollution, oil spills and industrial plans inform an altered seascape. Flowing and attached forms hold questions of mutation, symbiosis and dependence.

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Spillage — → belongs to
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Twinning — → belongs to
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Parasoma — → belongs to
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Mutation — shares theme
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mutation as a material process and a visual uncertainty
From Under the Sea — series statement
Symbiosis — shares theme
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an attachment can suggest symbiosis or dependence
From Under the Sea — series statement
Industrial Ecology — shares theme
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a sea shaped jointly by industrial activity and living things
From Under the Sea — series statement
Growth — shares theme
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flow, attach, divide, or grow beyond a stable outline
From Under the Sea — series statement
Uncertainty — shares theme
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how we recognise life, damage, and survival
From Under the Sea — series statement
Speculative Landscape — shares theme
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The series imagines what may emerge from that shared, altered environment
From Under the Sea — series statement

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Earth Nidus Parallel World / 2022

Earth Nidus Parallel World, 2022. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze, Flocks, Beads. 20 × 18 × 23 cm each.

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Earth Nidus Red / 2023

Earth Nidus Red, 2023. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze, Flocks. 23 × 20 × 25 cm.

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Earth Nidus Green / 2023

Earth Nidus Green, 2023. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze, Lustre. 20 × 19 × 17 cm.

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Earth Nidus Fragments / 2022

Earth Nidus Fragments, 2022. Clay, Glaze, Metal mesh. 15 × 18 × 19 cm.

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Oscillating 1 / 2024

Oscillating 1, 2024. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze, Lustre. 35 × 15 × 18 cm.

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Oscillating 2 / 2025

Oscillating 2, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Flocks.

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Oscillating 3 / 2025

Oscillating 3, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 42 × 18 × 15 cm.

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Oscillating 3.1 / 2025

Oscillating 3.1, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 28 × 12 × 18 cm.

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Oscillating 3.2 / 2025

Oscillating 3.2, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 10 × 10 cm.

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Oscillating 3.3 / 2025

Oscillating 3.3, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 11 × 8 cm.

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Oscillating 4 / 2025

Oscillating 4, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Flocks. 18 × 41 × 12 cm.

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Oscillating 4.1 / 2025

Oscillating 4.1, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Flocks. 29 × 11 × 16 cm.

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Oscillating 4.2 / 2025

Oscillating 4.2, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Flocks. 20 × 12 × 11 cm.

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Oscillating 4.3 / 2025

Oscillating 4.3, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Flocks. 17 × 12 × 14 cm.

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Spillage / 2025

Spillage, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 36 × 20 × 16 cm.

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Twinning / 2025

Twinning, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh. 20 × 19 × 17 cm; 23 × 27 × 32 cm.

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Parasoma / 2025

Parasoma, 2025. Clay, Lustre, Metal oxides, Metal mesh, Metal chain. 48 × 22 × 19 cm.

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Twin Nodules / 2023

Twin Nodules, 2023. Clay, Underglaze pigment, Metal mesh, Glaze. 23 × 20 × 25 cm.

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what can grow within a structure made for another purpose
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Crimson Triplet / 2024

Crimson Triplet, 2024. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze. 19 × 25 × 23 cm.

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Mutation — shares theme
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imagines a nature that has been altered and still goes on producing forms
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Growth — shares theme
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the moment when growth becomes difficult to name
Crimson Triplet — statement

Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame / 2023

Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame, 2023. Clay, Metal mesh, Glaze. 26 × 27 × 17 cm.

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Industrial Ecology — shares theme
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an encounter between a built structure and a living impulse
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — statement
Uncertainty — shares theme
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the work does not tell us who sustains whom
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — statement

theme

Mutation

Altered forms and ecologies that continue to change beyond a stable identity.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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a mutated world continuing to grow beyond human intentions
Earth Nidus — series statement
From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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mutation as a material process and a visual uncertainty
From Under the Sea — series statement
Crimson Triplet — → shares theme
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imagines a nature that has been altered and still goes on producing forms
Crimson Triplet — statement

Nonhuman Agency

Materials and nonhuman relations can act beyond, or redirect, human intention.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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take nonhuman objects and their relations seriously
Earth Nidus — series statement
Oscillating — → shares theme
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material behaviour can redirect intention
Oscillating — series statement
Object-Oriented Ontology — → informs
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take nonhuman objects and their relations seriously
Earth Nidus — series statement

Symbiosis

Attachment can sustain, restrain or become dependence; the distinction remains unstable.

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From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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an attachment can suggest symbiosis or dependence
From Under the Sea — series statement

Industrial Ecology

Living forms, manufactured structures and industrial material cycles meet and alter one another.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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materials from nature and industry meet without one simply representing or serving the other
Earth Nidus — series statement
Oscillating — → shares theme
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between geological residue, industrial debris, and something bodily
Oscillating — series statement
From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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a sea shaped jointly by industrial activity and living things
From Under the Sea — series statement
Western Mining — field visit — → shares theme
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a series of loops: separation, recovery, concentration, another separation, another recovery
Western Mining — 21 August 2026
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — → shares theme
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an encounter between a built structure and a living impulse
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — statement

Material Witness

Surfaces and forms retain traces of pressures, movements and material events.

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Oscillating — → shares theme
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recording the pressures and movements produced by its encounters with metal
Oscillating — series statement

Speculative Landscape

Imagined ecologies and uncertain terrains emerge through the material encounter.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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Across the works, this imagined ecology takes different forms
Earth Nidus — series statement
Oscillating — → shares theme
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groups of bodies at one distance and fragments of terrain at another
Oscillating — series statement
From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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The series imagines what may emerge from that shared, altered environment
From Under the Sea — series statement

Growth

Life takes hold in cracks, frames and structures designed for other purposes.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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plants growing through cracks, branches entangled with metal fences
Earth Nidus — series statement
From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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flow, attach, divide, or grow beyond a stable outline
From Under the Sea — series statement
Twin Nodules — → shares theme
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what can grow within a structure made for another purpose
Twin Nodules — statement
Crimson Triplet — → shares theme
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the moment when growth becomes difficult to name
Crimson Triplet — statement

Extraction

Attraction to hidden value, mineral recovery, and the uncertain boundary between residue and resource.

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Oscillating — → shares theme
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a wound, a shelter, or a place of extraction
Oscillating — series statement
Western Mining — field visit — → questions
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What makes something worth recovering today but disposable tomorrow?
Western Mining — 21 August 2026

Uncertainty

Instability in recognising life, damage, function and the unfamiliar.

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Earth Nidus — → shares theme
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nests or inhabitable spaces whose occupants remain unknown
Earth Nidus — series statement
Oscillating — → shares theme
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their possible functions become uncertain
Oscillating — series statement
From Under the Sea — → shares theme
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how we recognise life, damage, and survival
From Under the Sea — series statement
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — → shares theme
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the work does not tell us who sustains whom
Until Veins Weave, Sustain You Within My Frame — statement

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Western Mining — field visit / 2026

A visit to the copper smelting plant in Qinghai unsettles a linear account of resource becoming waste. The note follows separation, recovery and the limits of what was observed.

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A Geology of Media — informed by
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I had been reading Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media before coming to Qinghai
Western Mining — 21 August 2026
Extraction — questions
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What makes something worth recovering today but disposable tomorrow?
Western Mining — 21 August 2026
Industrial Ecology — shares theme
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a series of loops: separation, recovery, concentration, another separation, another recovery
Western Mining — 21 August 2026

reading

Object-Oriented Ontology

The Earth Nidus statement names this theoretical perspective in relation to nonhuman objects and their relations. No individual book or author is specified.

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Earth Nidus — → informed by
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Object-Oriented Ontology has informed my attempt to look beyond the human use of things
Earth Nidus — series statement
Nonhuman Agency — informs
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take nonhuman objects and their relations seriously
Earth Nidus — series statement

A Geology of Media

Jussi Parikka’s book, explicitly named in the Western Mining note as reading undertaken before the visit to Qinghai.

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I had been reading Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media before coming to Qinghai
Western Mining — 21 August 2026