Walking of the Peats Artwork

I often work in desolate landscapes: in peat bogs, on mountains and on moorlands. My struggle to gain a hard-won equilibrium in these changeable environments takes form through an ongoing series of performances that are punctuated briefly by events of energy containment and release. As human beings we have a tendency to relegate the non-human and the non-organic to the role of substrate to be acted upon. Yet lived human experience is punctuated by natural phenomena that provoke a state of rupture; wild uncontrollable forces that addle and alter human bodies. By setting up processes that have no definite beginning or end: chemical reactions, or objects upon which physical forces are exerted; I am able to explore the plasticity of the material world we inhabit, scrutinizing human anxiety as experienced in the face of elemental forces.