“The desire to think about other forms of archive, and other ways of holding knowledge, has always been embedded in my work, whether that’s in a lived space, whether it’s in land. Land is also an archive. Dust. Recipes. Songs and stories.”

The understanding of patina as something negative normally arises from the fact of it being a symbol of that which is old. On account of this, even if in an unconscious way, it is common for an analogy with the time-line of human life to be outlined in which beauty is related to youthfulness, and ugliness to becoming old. The metaphors used to... See more