Ecological Entanglements: Avocado | Giant Sloth
Sitting on a pile of soil are cast avocado pit sculptures made absolutely white. The hue is missing, as are the extinct large mammals who would swallow and distribute the avocado stones. Thousands of years ago, these great giants would swallow the entire fruit with its pit, helping to disperse the plant's progeny far and wide. Those animals are long gone, yet the fruit continues to call for its lost partner.
Soil, compost, woodchips, plaster
Avocado | Giant Sloth was part of a body of work titled Ecological Entanglements. Through an investigation of ecological interactions, it focuses on the exploration of colour and its spatio-temporal dynamics, to reconsider its perceptual boundaries in search of new possibilities. A series of abstract interactions are presented through sculptural, photographic, moving image and sound based works, to draw attention to ecological loss and absence.
Working through a reductive process of visual abstraction, allied with shifting sound textures, what was familiar becomes strange and haunting, creating spaces where one might feel disoriented, where lines dissolve and surroundings blur. Yet, simultaneously, something new might just reveal itself – new spaces where human agency is de-centred and the entanglements across time and space become visible.