Vegvísir screenprints

 

Contemplating the vibrations of nature, life tingling… fizzing before our eyes a riot of colour before deaths final blows, like the neon corals last ditch attempt to save itself. A blurring of vision… focus unfocus as if underwater, mingle with the networks that nourish and keep the blood coursing through us… pulsating under our surface. 

 

Our fables, folklore, stories serve as cautionary tales to warn of bad behaviour punishable by lives lost at sea and good rewarded with abundance of riches from below the waves. Listening carefully, can we feel the connection to the earth and sea? 

 

The drawn line is a visual cue for ghost netting (abandoned fishing nets and rope) entangled with floating islands of plastic and micro plastics finding its way to our internal sea. Are we altering from the inside out?

 

A Vegvísir is magical ancient Icelandic stave, a wayfinder used for safe passage across the perilous seas. Whilst writing a funding proposal to make immersive sculptural work with ghost netting earlier in the year; the creation of this drawing (now screen prints) became my constant companion. A detangling then re entangling of entangled thoughts and feelings about the environmental damage to the sea, its inhabitants and us.

 

 

 

Single editions

Archival paper

Some are hand embellished

Unframed £150

Framed £210