These pieces are a mixed work of linoprinting, oil pastels, painting with gouache, clay and cardboard. I experimented a lot in the first half of this project with how I was going to incorporate the philosophy I was researching. My work explores material transformation, reflecting Hamilton and Neimanis' understanding of composting as an ongoing process of becoming. Where old food scraps are transformed and given a second life through care and attention into new soil. I deep dived more into this in Lexicon of Language.

Untitled, 2024, Linoprint with oil pastels, 14.8 x 21.0 cm

Untitled, 2024, Gouache and oil pastels on cream paper, 42 x 59.4 cm

Ethereal Bloom, 2026, Gouache and oil pastel on artist board, 30 x 30 cm

Untitled, 2025, Linoprint with gouache and oil pastel , 21 x 29.7 cm

The Cycle of Perfect Decay, 2025, Gouache, clay, cardboard and oil pastels, 42 x 59.4 cm

Matter in Motion (Study of Perfect Decay), 2025, Video Installation, 26 seconds

This video is a development of my original work The Cycle of Perfect Decay (2025) shown in the crit show in December 2025. I placed the canvas beneath a yellow tree, allowing falling leaves, shifting light, and wind to move across its surface. By putting the canvas outdoors, I allowed it to interact with more than human forces that shaped it’s materials in the first place.

Drawing on Neimanis’ and Hamilton's thinking, this piece explores how matter is never still but constantly in motion, entangled, and cocreating. The canvas, the leaves, the wind, and the tree form a temporary relationship, a moment where the artwork becomes part of an environmental cycle rather than a fixed object in my studio space.

The movement of the branches and leaves introduces a living, temporal quality to the work, showing decay not as an ending but as an active, ongoing process. This development highlights the artwork's connection to seasonal change and the shared rhythms between human made and natural materials.