Moss Traces 1988-2011(2011)
(Own Work)
(Own Work)
Moss, paper, frame, plastic
Dimensions 350mmx300mm
‘For many living plants it is light which dictates the path they grow. For us, it is life itself which shapes our routes and how well we thrive.’
Traces 1988-2011(2011), were a set of four frames shown for a ‘First Thursday’ group exhibition at the Vyner Street gallery in Shoreditch, London. These outlines of road maps are drawn with intentional ambiguity and spread across the paper like roots or veins. The 26 tiny moss patches represent the 24 houses and 2 hotels that have been occupied in one lifetime to date and are living landmarks, plotting a growing journey which began from birth in 1988.
All four frames were interspersed through the other artist’s work, some in lower spaces, another tucked into a top corner of the room. This is all to mirror the seemingly random path which has been taken and the opportunistic nature in which moss grows. It has not been random, but a very specific series of environmental factors which have shaped this course.
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