Stone / Bone

The ceramic pieces are seemingly stone like, of the earth and reference bone forms.

The hollows represent a lacuna, an absence or missing part, while ridges refer to brow like forms, a brow of a hill, the brow of a face.

They are memento mori, a reminder of mortality.

One of my architectural projects was adjacent to an Ancient British Hill Fort, a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the New Forest. We employed the Museum of London to investigate the archaeology during the building excavations. Very soon, the archaeologist called me from site to say they had ‘found a bone, could be a stone’. Several days later after analysis back in London they called to say it is a bone. This ambiguity and incident resonated with me. Our relationship with the landscape and our place in it.

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