Record Keeper exhibited August 11-16th at Galerie Popop Gallery.
“We don’t live in the universe; we embody it…We arise, in every particular detail, however glorious or mundane, from the spacetime fabric of the universe, via the quantum foam, and ultimately, we subside back into the fullness of time.”
(Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity)
Trees are among our oldest witnesses. Standing between soil and sky, they hold centuries of ecological memory within their rings, roots, and living networks. Whether growing in an urban neighbourhood or an old growth rain forest, they embody relationships that extend far beyond the individual. Through underground fungal networks, trees exchange nutrients, communicate distress, and pass knowledge across generations, modelling forms of collective care, adaptation, and resilience. This exhibition explores our ecological identity by inviting us to recognize ourselves as part of a living archive. Like the forest, we carry ancestral knowledge shaped across generations, while the microbial communities that inhabit us remind us that our bodies are themselves expansive ecosystems. Drawing on the understanding that humans are not separate from earth or universe, but participants within a larger living system, these works invite reflection. Composed of eco-, ice-, and rust-dyed textiles layered with encaustic wax, clay, journal remnants, thread, and found materials collected from cities, forests, coastlines, and places beyond political borders, each work gathers the marks of time, place, and encounter. Like tree rings, these layered surfaces become archives that embrace the complexity and messiness of transformation.
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