IMARA  Charity    ART AUCTION

In 2018, I went to the site of a Roman villa in Chedworth. It was quite a hill trek to get to the villa and that, combined with the walk around the site under a blaring sun, left me hot and fatigued. I sat outside to take a drink of water. When I looked down I saw, half hidden in the soil, what looked like the remains of an old mobile phone. I pulled it out of the soil; it was a smashed up iPod. I thought about how this piece of modern technology, almost lost in the grass and soil, might end up as a treasured “relic” in the years to come. This led me to the creation of my own “relic” prints, constructed in part from discarded electronic pieces: outdated mobile phones, radios, computer keyboards etc. I then added more found waste to highlight the hidden nature of the electronic items. The prints encompass the theme of waste as art, as well as highlighting the fact that so much electronic waste goes back to the ground; back to where it came. This also gave rise to my thoughts on mortality; we inevitably go back to ground and become relics.