DEGREE SHOW: UCA Farnham

This body of work explores outcomes directed by material and performance and seeks a process of reduction that is quiet, yet present. The philosophies of Zen suggest that a quietness of self and a state of emptiness holds great energy. Looking closely at the undisturbed undergrowth found in the chalky downs of Hampshire, the work plays on notions of mimicry. Reducing the activity to a tangled line of pencil on paper and a series of tightly wrapped twigs encourages a slower response to nature that is serene yet complex. Suggestions of ravelling and unravelling, overlapping, repetition, and cocooning emerge.