Films

The three canvases were initiated outdoors using fire ash and residual charcoal from both indoor and outdoor fires. The first was worked into after dark, marked with branches, leaves and what was to hand, before being layered with ash. The subsequent canvases followed at intervals, each entering into the same cycle of exposure.

Rather than stabilising the surface, I allowed the ash to remain unsettled — responsive to wind, rain and shifting temperature. Over time, the canvases became sites of encounter between material and weather.

The film below captures the first canvas in storm conditions. The wind lifts and redistributes the ash, the surfaces darkened by rain, the work still in flux. What is recorded is not a finished object, but a moment within an unfolding process.