‘Speculative Core Samples’ is part of an ongoing investigation into the material impacts of anthropogenic change on the Earth System. Resembling a geological core sample, the moving-image artwork depicts a vertical column of layered sand, stone, plastic, e-waste and other artifacts of the late Capitalocene.
The work is created through photogrammetry scans of found objects, sculptures and assemblage constructed in a studio process. By indexing real materials and quotidian objects in this way I aim to facilitate conversations around how humans impact the geological record. The artifacts a culture leaves behind–their art, their tools and their refuse–can tell us much about their cultural values. What will future civilizations make of ours?