Re-Rehearsing the Fracture explores humanity's enduring desire to transcend its limitations, and the consequences that remain when those ambitions become embedded in history.
The body of work imagines fragments from a civilisation that no longer exists - artefacts whose original purpose has been lost, leaving only traces of the aspirations that created them.
Through forms that suggest flight, guardianship, machinery, and collective weight, the sculptures occupy a space between archaeology and imagination.
Working in iron and steel, I deliberately allow the physical history, oxidation, weld splatter, and weathering to become part of the language of the work, giving the sculptures the appearance of objects that have already endured time. The materials themselves become a record of transformation, suggesting that what we build can outlast our understanding of why it was built.
Relic of Flight, Gatekeeper l and Il and The Weight We Carry each approach this idea differently. Together they consider aspiration, invention, and the human desire to reach beyond the boundaries of the earth, while questioning what those ambitions might look like when viewed from a distant future.
The work asks us to imagine ourselves as the civilisation being excavated. What would remain of us? What would future generations understand from the fragments we leave behind? And would they recognise the aspirations, failures, and contradictions contained within them?
Nick Rodgers