Looking at how human events are recorded through ephemeral actions. In this work I investigated the way in which objects have witnessed events of a massive human scale, such as the Hiroshima bombing, recording the event in their distortion.
Drawings and watercolours of everyday domestic objects unearthed in the aftermath of the A-bomb: distorted and broken through the shock of the blast and intense heat which reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius over a couple of minutes.
At 8.15 am on 6th August 1945 these items instantaneously changed from anodyne household objects to become witnesses of a world changing event. The intense heat merged objects to become a hybrid of different objects.
The drawings investigate 5 objects drawn from different angles.
Exhibitions:
Ground temperature: 3000°c, Emerged, Berlin.
New Scots, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.