The End

Installation of Mounds and Projection (Expanding Foam, Grey Emulsion, Granite Dust) 2024

 

When extraterrestrial life reaches Earth, this being in a few months, years, or centuries from now, all we can be certain of is that there will be surface below and sky above. This terrain may be worn, beaten and warped from how we know it today. Whatever senses the extraterrestrial beings may have, whatever scale they may be, they will experience our landscape by standing upon it and moving within it. 

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In this future, everything has turned to dust. There are no objects which remain, and all that once existed has deteriorated and broken down into grains of matter. As an installation, the terrain takes inspiration from the post-apocalyptic ‘room’ of Tarcovsky’s Stalker, and a soundscape dips between tranquillity and trepidation. The seemingly rotating sun is a reminder that the Earth is orbital, and what surrounds us is vast and infinite. The audience is invited to walk both on and within the landscape itself. 

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This work is a sequel to Impending (2022) and was installed for BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham as part of The Last Horror Show. 

Photography credit: Joshua Jones and BACKLIT Gallery.