Entanglement

Constructed from canvas surfaces produced within tropical forest environments and mounted onto fragile plaster structures suggestive of architecture and human construction, the work explores the entangled and uneasy relationship between ecological systems and human intervention.

The canvas records a process of direct material encounter, where moisture, spores, and time gradually leave their traces upon the surface. The three plaster forms, drawing loosely from Chinese ancestral prayer tablets, evoke human-made structures shaped through construction and ritual presence.

Bound together by tightened and scorched jute twine, the forms appear simultaneously connected and restrained. The twine was burnt using incense as part of the making process, allowing smoke, ash, scent, and temporality to enter the fibres as material traces within the work.

Burnt marks across the twine and canvas evoke extraction, industrial pressure, and the wounds imposed upon the land through human development. The work asks whether human construction can enter into more honest forms of coexistence with future ecologies.