The Second Language

Navigating Marginalised Ecologies using a Multidisciplinary Practice.

This multi-disciplinary project combines ceramic objects, paintings, video, and the recorded voice to examine issues of ecological degradation and social injustice. The methodologies of visceral form, gestural abstraction, and assemblage thinking are employed to consider the insidious impacts of the Anthropocene on marginalised life in the peripheries of a post-modern world. Drawing from lived experiences, language culture and personal memory, I reflect on the impacts of an apathetic human-centric approach to everything non-human by linking binary oppositions in language to the escalating climate crises and environmental abuse of both human and animal rights.

 

Installation view- Gossard Space-RMIT 2022

Image Details:

Top- Porcelain and Black Clays. Photo Credit: Tharshiv Suresh

Right-Found Paper, Charcoal, pigments, acrylics, watercolours, Abstract Calligraphy, Burnt, 82cms x 63cms.

Bottom- Installation view- Gossard Space RMIT Melbourne city campus