BURIED STORIES

The bone marrow is the core of the body’s structure and is where blood cells are produced. Bloodlines going back generations (and beyond homo sapiens) giving clues to creatures that once came to being, each with its own story. Fragments of their existence lie buried in strata of earth which can be excavated to understand life in their time, in both an archaeological and a geological sense. Buried Stories is a partial submergence of modern cow remains into today’s waste products.

While past life forms have made their own -often lethal- waste (oxygen for algae), our modern legacy is the production of plastics and other persistent molecules coupled with intensive industries such as farming and travel. Our activities are also being written onto the earth to be viewed by future eyes. There have been many catastrophic events that have changed the nature of the earth both locally and globally. All these events are tattooed into the surface of the earth and held in stasis as new layers are formed on top. Each captured existence –man, dinosaur, diatom-  has lived their time, however briefly. Each is a star with its own unique story.