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Extractive Hues, plate one. copper oxide wash, stoneware, digital engraving of google map image of Fonderie Horne (Rouyn Noranda, QC), 9.5 x10β, 2024.
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Extractive Hues, plate two. cobalt oxide wash, stoneware, digital engraving of google map image of Mutanda Mine ( Lualaba, Democratic Republic of Congo), 10x11"
These stoneware plates were a part of my thesis exhibition ground is the bottom of anything. I used copper and cobalt wash as the colorants for the entire body of ceramic work.
In glaze chemistry the finest trace of cobalt produces the most intense colour of blue.
βYou need less than you thinkβ
The expansion of industrial-scale mines that extract cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries has led to forced evictions and human and more-than-human rights abuses.
Language and earth are both malleable, both change over time, exploited, reused, alchemical. The ground, the wordβ they both shape worlds, and end worlds.
Use a word so many times it loses its meaning.
Use the ground so many times it becomes unrecognizable.
Rocks tell us stories of how the world came to be.
Unfortunately, rather than listen, we use them, extract them, moving mountains and, digging craters into the earth's shield.
The way humans dig into the ground for extractive purposes feels like digging up graves of the dead.
I think about the Gwichβin language logic for the word Oil, βthe ghost we disturb haunt in our name.β
The act of extraction is of unearthing what is buried.
- Thesis excerpt from ground is the bottom of anything, 2024
In glaze chemistry the finest trace of cobalt produces the most intense colour of blue.
βYou need less than you thinkβ
The expansion of industrial-scale mines that extract cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries has led to forced evictions and human and more-than-human rights abuses.
Language and earth are both malleable, both change over time, exploited, reused, alchemical. The ground, the wordβ they both shape worlds, and end worlds.
Use a word so many times it loses its meaning.
Use the ground so many times it becomes unrecognizable.
Rocks tell us stories of how the world came to be.
Unfortunately, rather than listen, we use them, extract them, moving mountains and, digging craters into the earth's shield.
The way humans dig into the ground for extractive purposes feels like digging up graves of the dead.
I think about the Gwichβin language logic for the word Oil, βthe ghost we disturb haunt in our name.β
The act of extraction is of unearthing what is buried.
- Thesis excerpt from ground is the bottom of anything, 2024
Extractive Hues, plate one. copper oxide wash, stoneware, digital engraving of google map image of Fonderie Horne (Rouyn Noranda, QC), 9.5 x10β, 2024.
Extractive Hues, plate two. cobalt oxide wash, stoneware, digital engraving of google map image of Mutanda Mine ( Lualaba, Democratic Republic of Congo), 10x11"