What Remians Is A Pattern III

Artists Statement

Composite frames this exhibition in the rhythm of endings and beginnings. Working from a fallen log, dead matter fissured by time whose desiccated rings trapped ambient moisture, where the turkey tail fungi metabolised loss into renewal. I read surfaces as archives of time: crack, ring, spore, and traced textures and layered forms to show how endings created the conditions for beginning again. I argued that life and death were not opposites but coexistent states within a shared environment, where what disappeared nourished what emerged. Located in the intervals between erosion and renewal, stillness and proliferation, this composite exhibition treated “composite” as both process and ethic, a patient ecology of making in which death scaffolded life. I constructed layered surfaces using ink, bleach, recycled paper, graphite and stitched thread, employing mark making, stippling, stitching and bleach painting. Through these methods the materials recorded a passage from absence to presence, from ruin to renewal, while sustaining fragile yet enduring cycles across human and natural worlds.