Egg, Spittle, and Allsorts.
The beginning and end, resonating pre-history and future-science.
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Eggs are symbols of life, creation, fragility, and mortality.
They inherently signal gestation, despite the cross-species divide.
The egg-form is found as weathered, round pebbles nestling within stone hollows by the sea.
As slowly growing cave pearls that silently form in concentric layers around a nucleus. These spherical time rings count back to pre-history and cave men.
Eggs and nesting is about home and belonging. Post nuclear family, the ‘eggs’ comprising family can be all sorts, individual, irregular.
Spittle is organic bubbles, an animal’s version of sea-foam, like egg in liquid form. A metaphor for the liquid aggregate of merging, oscillating, society.
The symbolism of the egg implies a gestation separate from the mother – the unborn is encased, portable. It can be cared for by the male of the species. The egg may be tended outside the birth family in the case of cuckoo or adoption. It can be all sorts of genetic makeup.
Eggs are more portable than in-vitro, they can be packed and stored for travelling gestation. Extrapolate on, to transportation of genetic material at an interstellar scale.
They inherently signal gestation, despite the cross-species divide.
The egg-form is found as weathered, round pebbles nestling within stone hollows by the sea.
As slowly growing cave pearls that silently form in concentric layers around a nucleus. These spherical time rings count back to pre-history and cave men.
Eggs and nesting is about home and belonging. Post nuclear family, the ‘eggs’ comprising family can be all sorts, individual, irregular.
Spittle is organic bubbles, an animal’s version of sea-foam, like egg in liquid form. A metaphor for the liquid aggregate of merging, oscillating, society.
The symbolism of the egg implies a gestation separate from the mother – the unborn is encased, portable. It can be cared for by the male of the species. The egg may be tended outside the birth family in the case of cuckoo or adoption. It can be all sorts of genetic makeup.
Eggs are more portable than in-vitro, they can be packed and stored for travelling gestation. Extrapolate on, to transportation of genetic material at an interstellar scale.
Large Prehistory Egg Relic - detail (2022)
Barrel fired hollow ceramic, englobe with colouring oxides. Wax polished.
Barrel fired hollow ceramic, englobe with colouring oxides. Wax polished.
Handheld Prehistory eggs (2022)
Barrel fired hollow ceramic, oxides and wax |
Cave Pearl Uterus (2022)
Ceramic fixed and free, glaze, salt, raw sheep wool |
SpaceX (2022)
Stoneware glazed ceramic in copper wire nest |
Adoption Eggs (2022)
Hand-built modular ceramic nest, hollow egg forms, horsehair.
Hand-built modular ceramic nest, hollow egg forms, horsehair.