Liz McGowan
Complicity 5, 2026
Tideline flotsam and jetsam: sea urchin, sea urchin spines, ground shell, crab skeletons on chimney soot
Framed 75 x 75 x 3.5 cm
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This series of work was begun during lockdown, a time when we all fell back on resources close to home. At the back of my store room I found a...
This series of work was begun during lockdown, a time when we all fell back on resources close to home. At the back of my store room I found a small bag of clinker - crystallised soot from my chimney - sparkling, velvety black, and at the same time poisonous, noxious. I decided to use it in order to put myself in directly front of my personal complicity in the climate crisis - by applying delicate life forms from around me onto its surface - lichen, cobwebs, tiny rodents teeth/scapulae, and ground mussel shells.
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