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Hylozoic Soil

" My compositions since Rome have tended to concentrate on vital, seething qualities build up from intensive repetition of miniature parts.  The work tends to dominated by practical technology while at the same time poetic cadences are latent: blood, soil.  The large-scale filed structures offer bodily immersion and wide-flung dispersal of perception. A number of my installations have been inserted into natural environments.  They work to catch and inject matter, accumulating density and eventually forming into a hybrid turf.  Like ill-fitting clothes, this work has an uncomfortable relationship with its natural host.  The relationship of these object-assemblies contains layers of violence: the violence of a foreign colony imposed on a living host; the forces of dismembering and consuming; the force of will, violating the ethical boundaries that maintain nature as an untouched sanctuary."

Hylozoic Soil: Kinetic Architectures and Geotextle Installations
Edited by Philip Beesley

Riverside Architectural Press
Toronto, Ontario, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9780978-5-1

Hardcover with dust jacket
192 p., full colour, contains CD-ROM
OUT OF PRINT

 
Hylozoic Soil - Toronto, ON - 2007  
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