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 quiet relation to one another. Their form suggests the beginning of something, a point of origin, potential, growth, yet cast in brass, they are held in a state that resists change and transformation.
Seeds carry an inherent sense of futurity, a movement toward becoming. Here, that movement is paused. The material fixes them in place, suspending the process they signify. What might grow remains latent, contained within a form that cannot escape or regenerate.
The number 24 introduces a subtle measure of time, a counting that sits alongside the work without fully explaining it. It suggests duration, a cycle, or a life marked in units, while the seeds themselves resist linear progression, repeating a form that holds both beginning and ending within it.
Emerging from an ongoing engagement with childhood and grief, the work turns toward cycles of return, the idea of dying as a movement back into the ground, into seed, into potential for something else. At the same time, it holds this idea in tension with the material reality of stillness, where change is implied but not possible. The work lingers in this space between growth and stasis, between what begins and what cannot continue, allowing these conditions to sit alongside one another in a state tension wihtout being resolved.
