the centre of everything
Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show, Dundee, Scotland, 201624 brass seeds
The Centre of Everything consists of 24 brass seeds arranged in a circular pile. The seeds signify beginnings, potential and growth, but cast in brass they become fixed and held in a state that could never produce new life, their golden semi-precious material hold a magical quality as if from a childrens story book. I was interested in the tension between the futurity of the seed and the stillness of the material, something that might grow is held in a form that cannot regenerate, suspended between potential and impossibility. The number 24 introduces a measure of time, a number of chances or a mark of finitude.
Growing out of an ongoing engagement with childhood and grief, the works consider cycles of return: dying as a movement back into the ground, into seed, into the possibility of something else with that possibility suspended or unattainable. The seeds hold both beginning and ending, growth and stasis, potential and impossibility.
