Tablet I, Jesmonite, 16.5 x 23.4, 2022 

Tablet V, Jesmonite, 16.5 x 23.4, 2022 

Tablet II, Jesmonite sand,,10x22cm,2022

Installation view, Jesmonite, wood, concrete, dimensions variable, 2022

This artwork is comprised of a series of 'Tablets' cast in Jesmonite based on iPhones and Tablets, which reference labyrinths found within the Ancient world. The title tablet playfully references the use of Tablets and technology that we are surrounded by in everyday life but also the early stone tablets found within the Ancient world. The labyrinths were intended to symbolise journeys and spiritual paths, that historically have been traced in a meditative fashion, but I also wanted them to appear hypnotic in some way the same effect of staring for a long time at screens and phones.

The work was exhibited in a group exhibition that aimed to show how artists translate recovered lost knowledge, through multiple paths of thought, and how they relate this to their experience of the contemporary. From evoking science fictional worlds, the alien, and the unhuman; to the archaic and the personal, all are modes of expression that are united in the same ground: the search for an ancient energy not yet lost to be harnessed to give us courage for the future.