Residue

‘Residue’ depicts the inherent conflict between our organic world and the artificial constructs of human existence. The work explores a fragile order that human intervention relentlessly disrupts, as well as the potent residue of humanity's actions. One may observe an awareness of what has been left behind and a questioning of what is to come.

The star is imprinted with an earthy substance, a symbol of oneness, marking a space in which life once inhabited. The absence of this life is as evocative as its presence, an emptiness that acknowledges humanity’s influence upon the world. It embodies our abiding impact, in which creation and destruction, decay and growth collide. The raw residue lies suspended in plastic, a synthetic material, conveying humanity's struggle to comprehend and control its conditions through the tools it has developed. Such conditions often conflict with natural order, iterating the prolific man versus nature dichotomy.