Jam-Tomorrow: Excavation lifecycles in the Apocalypse (outdoors), is an archaeology of how humans’ shape land and ecology via waste. I have been drawn in by the natural entropy employed by Robert Smithson in his earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970).
The term ‘Jam-Tomorrow’ stems from Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland, from what I interpret as a promise of a pleasant event in the future that will never happen, alluding to the paper promises on the governments goals towards ‘fixing’ climate catastrophe that’s spiralling chaotically out of our control. Playing with themes of fact and fiction, time, man’s relationship to nature and throwaway culture, the installation confronts us with lifecycles in excavations of our waste across the ages, echoing relics of our past humanity into these molten anthropocentric artefacts 10,000 years in the future.
This Installation aims to see two sides of the apocalyptic coin.
(The Courtyard for this installation was gardened in collaboration with LSU Gardening and Landscaping Society. Who donated locally grown plants from the Campus allotment. Alongside help from the Loughborough Locals: Rob- who helped with excavating in Lincoln, Ian and Maria – who donated soil, Robin and Jackie helping source vintage finds. Bringing the local community together to breathe new life back into this wild and derelict space).
Both of these sides to the coin show the art of the complex dance between losing control in socio-political and environmental destruction and growth. We both live and die in an endless cycle of harming the land and facing its consequences and vice-versa.
'A Life After LAGS'
Ceramic install of Degree Show Sculptures.
8-Month Loan to Loughborough University Landscape and Gardening Society, University Campus (2023-2024)
Innovation Award Fine Artist: One to Watch (2023)
Awarded by Bruce Asbestos on behalf of Loughborough University.
