This heading is the one which seems to sum up the process. I am making something new out of other things.
Every item we have is made of other things. The clothes I am wearing are made of natural or synthetic fibres, the first grown and harvested from plant or animal, the second manufactured from coal and petroleum.
To make something we take components from the earth (mineral) or biosphere, and transform them into something else.
This notion was a strong thread through the work I made for the Then & Now series over a period of years coinciding with the excavations of the neolithic cemetery on Petersfield Heath.
Those pieces made me very aware that we are from the earth, of the earth.
What has happened to us today is that we are almost completely unaware of this. Even people working in climate change or sustainability talk about ‘saving the planet’ as if it is something separate from us.
