Collection: Valerie Durant
Systems Shift explores the boundaries between photographic image making and sculpture. This installation of photo-sculptural works, is intended as an inquiry into material culture and consumption, exploring concepts of continuum and regeneration, and the complex living systems within the natural world.
In the Pulp Fiction Series, paper shopping bags are reimagined, melded with carbon, earth pigments and remnants collected from the forest floor. The materials are cast in moulds, created from the living bark of old growth trees and from the crosscuts of clear-cut timber. They are melded with photographic images of tree-rings, moss and burnt carbon from forest fires.
