fossus
video projection on white sandstone relief | 4 x 5 feet |2011
Fossus | installation view
Fossus … something that has been dug up. What would one of the artificial forms that form part of the Bloodlines family tree look like if they existed in the real world? These forms echo deep-sea, single celled organisms such as Radiolarians and Diatoms, which are distinguished by their unique and intricately detailed porcelain-like exoskeletons. Fossus and the series of drawings that follow developed from this. Fossus is a hybrid work the base of which is white sandstone cut into the shape extracted from one of the video organisms from Bloodlines. The sculpture forms the base for a video which again derives from Bloodlines but is further layered with 12 individual drawings that gradually morph and metamorphose over a period of 12 minutes.
