Footprints

Footprints forms part of my Plant Ash series. The work was included in the Earth Action Climate Art Show and Conference in California, where it was shown alongside a corresponding footprint created by my Arts Territory Exchange partner, Arminée Chahbazian, made using ash from the California wildfires.

Developed through dialogue across distance, the two works responded to fire within our respective territories — my imprint emerging from the Plant Ash body of work rooted in Dorset farmland, and Arminée’s from landscapes marked by large-scale wildfire. Each registers a moment of contact: a brief human presence pressed into the residue of burning.

Shown together, the works hold both trace and absence — the mark of a body and the fragile ground beneath it. They speak quietly of humanity’s footprint within the environment and the responsibility that accompanies it, reminding us that presence leaves material consequence.

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