The series ‘Growing stones’ and ‘Earth works’ are based on the potato, a relationship grew as I studied and watched it sprout, its multicolored branches taking unusually shaped forms. I observed and documented how these alien bodies contained themselves over many months or years, keeping a record and collecting data of the alternative world they inhabit, similarly to 16th-Century botanists, fascinated in it’s diversity and ability to survive. I researched into its complicated unwelcome introduction into European History and how eventually it was adopted and how it influenced the economic development of Northern Europe. A form of intimacy and obsession between me and my subject formed, ‘Growing stones’ are watercolour drawings the same height as myself with anthropomorphic metamorphic qualities.
Watercolour on paper 125 x 210 cm approx
