Scorched Earth (2022-25).
Initiated during a collaborative residency at Bajo el Olivo, with artist-researchers Candice Boyd and Sarah Bennett, Scorched Earth is an ongoing project around modelling the Anthropocene.
We found ourselves situated at the edge of a terrain that had been devastated by a wildfire tornado two months prior. Slowly exploring the mountainside: walking from the edges to the centre of the burnt out landscape, collecting images and burnt fragments, turned attention from distance to temporality. The slow regrowth of the forest; its gradual renewal against the devastation of the wildfires, prompted a reconsideration of the idea of time as a human concept.
A chapter on this project has been published in geographer Phillip Vannini’s Non-representational and more-than-human research: Vitalist methodologies for the end of data.