As part of my ongoing exploration into work that can be left/returned to where it was initially taken from I have created the following:
For environmental reasons I liked the minimal materials required to make the brick bone glass stone piece and so would like to take the method of carving/engraving on to further work. The above piece is essentially an initial sketch of an idea at this stage, created by taking a small pebble and etching multiple tiny lines into its surface, almost like tally marks. Visually this was somewhat inspired by this piece from my sketchbook:
The idea behind the process of taking a stone, etching small, repetitive marks onto it, and then returning it to the beach is to draw attention to some kind of passing of time: stone-time existing alongside human-time for a short while. Throughout all my most recent work I have been thinking about and trying to convey an ongoingness of material, the idea that our object/material divide is arbitrary and that objects do not just cease to exist beyond human consciousness. My hope is that the stone can act as almost a talisman in this sense, a record of a period of time in which human and nonhuman sat alongside each other and had an interaction. The minimal material additions to the stone mean that should I chose to return it to where I took it from then this would be an option. Equally, should I want to keep a series of the stones as a record to display in some way this would also be doable.
Anna Harris 