Re-routing

Re-routing | 2023

Shown at Fevers, Frets and Futures - Uncertainty and new ecologies for post-covid healthcare, UCL, London - July 2023

Grounding and emergence in a post-pandemic world

Loss, longing and solitude, and associated anxieties in our inner and outer worlds marks the last 3.5 years and it is this global shift that could possibly drive new and more intelligent ways of thriving in not just our micro worlds - but also in the environments around us as a collective.

Re-routing references visuals from fungi, roots and trees to arrive at visual themes of grounding to the earth, emergence from darkness and thriving in our new micro and macro, inner and outer worlds. The project looks at texts from ecocentric art critiques, eco- activism and contemporary art and installations. Indigenous and ancient art symbols and practices were also referred to.

Art and its histories have held the potential for transforming ways of being, knowing and thinking - disrupting rigidity and confronting traditional methods of interpreting information.

The images are created from references of trees found in neo-classical and impressionistic paintings, and from drawing plein-air. Trees are symbolic of connections, growth and vastness of form.

Everything is connected…

For millions of years, fungi have proliferated by forming reciprocal; inter kingdom relationships and sophisticated systems of sharing.

Network drawings are a unique edition series of 4 prints taken from copper plate etchings on paper.  Each print is metamorphosed from the original and is indicative of our constantly shifting understanding of a virus that brought the world to a halt for the last 2.5 years.  Fungi is understood to lie between the plant and animal intelligence and it was this fluidity that brought me to research further on the growth and communication mechanisms in the fungi world, and how it adapts, rewires and sustains itself in changing landscapes and conditions.