A river is a transient thing
- Medium
- Transfer prints using intaglio ink and plate oil on dissolvable embroidery fabric; ice
- Dimensions
- Variable
This site-specific performative installation at the University of East London's Way Out East Gallery explores the notion of transience and materiality as it relates to the Thames river. The University's Docklands campus occupies a historic trade crossroads, which continues to facilitate the movement of people and commodities.
My creation of this transient work signifies the constant change in the area, both physically and phenomenologically. I selected dissolvable fabric as an allusion to the fast fashion industry and its place in accelerating environmental degradation; ice functions to melt the prints, referencing environmental change in general and the dilapidation of shores as a result of melting glaciers in particular.
