‘energy is neither created, nor is it destroyed’ … ‘the elements suffer continual rearrangement’

A practice interested in interdependence, impermanence and complexity, recognising the world as being in constant motion, everything in relation, forming and reforming. The system of weather is used as a framework within which to organise and structure these ideas.

Works typically show abstract depictions of fleeting, momentary forms from the natural world - a wave, cloud, raindrop. One brief formation in an ongoing process of continual transformation, suspended indefinitely.

Each form is presented in isolation, disconnected from any specific time or place, with proportions and scale independent of any real-world referent. Autographic lines often feature, activating the page and conveying energy and movement.

Works are made using the cyanotype photographic process, which uses simple chemistry, light and water to make the image.

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Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.

A complex system with many interacting components (temperature, atmospheric pressure, cloud formation, wind, humidity, rain and human activity).

A dynamic system that operates across multiple time and spatial scales (minutes to centuries and local to global).

Components and scales are interconnected and interact dynamically creating constantly shifting conditions.

Interactions can cause an increase or amplification of conditions (positive feedback loop) or a decrease or dampening of conditions (negative feedback loop).

Interactions are nonlinear, response to change is not typically gradual, sudden shifts occur.

A small event can trigger a chain reaction, affecting conditions in another place at a later time, in ways that are hard to predict.

Minor changes can lead to major unexpected outcomes.

Local events can influence global patterns and short-term fluctuations can have long-term consequences.

Large complex events emerge from the interactions between simpler small-scale phenomena (wind, temperature, moisture), and at the same time large complex events can influence small-scale processes.

Events emerge naturally. Components self-organise across varying scales, without centralised control.

Emergent behaviour cannot be predicted by looking at the individual components alone.

Hindsight does not lead to foresight because external conditions and systems constantly change.

Broad trends and patterns can be predicted (seasonal trends), but smaller-scale events are chaotic and more sensitive to minor changes (path of a hurricane).

An adaptive system. What has happened before affects what happens now as parts evolve together and with the environment irreversibly.

An unordered system. Not constrained by the system (ordered system), nor entirely unconstrained (chaotic system). Constraints emerge from within.