Murmurs
2025
This collection of studies reflect a stream of consciousness - thoughts and ideas, like murmurs on time, fluidity, and relativity. Writer Timothy Ingold suggests the world is a “dynamic mesh of interwoven lines” that “connect, tangle, and form relationships". Thinking with the spirit of Ingold's work, I see these sculptural pieces as being in dialogue with concepts around the ways in which lines respond to contrary forces of tension and friction, connecting and entangling to form knots. They are my attempt to capture the fluid, transitory sense of breath and life that Ingold argues can be found in "concretions or swellings in animal tissues, and even, by analogy, to rocky outcrops of similar conformation and texture". Made with local soil, sand, water, and cement, these forms balance between organic and industrial materials both literally and conceptually. They are my response to the landscape, folds of time, and ancient history embedded in the soil of the Western Cape.