The Shape of Human Touch
Ecological‑Urgency
A fossil found on the shoreline at Castle Espie, and a brick carrying human fingerprints, revealed how both nature and human industry leave marks that endure. This work uses those impressions to speak to a moment of ecological urgency.
The brick forms recall Castle Espie’s historic brickworks, while carved insects imagine fossils of the future. Across the structures are placed life forms like pale ghosts, already half absent.
The fragility and precarious nature of these structures are a warning. Nature’s species are declining; habitats are shrinking; the living world is becoming quieter. Without active protection and restoration, the creatures that shape these ecosystems may survive only as impressions in clay, or not at all.
These pieces asks viewers to confront the reality that human touch shapes the fate of the environment. What we choose to protect now determines what remains living, and what becomes a ghost of our past.
Warm tones of bricks against cool porcelain white. LIVING vs. LOST.