Hand carved in Cumbrian slate, mounted on a scorched oak base. 1 of 1. W - 34 cm, H - 45 cm, D - 19 cm. The Artifact series is somewhat inspired by the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek mechanical contraption considered to be an analogue computer that was retrieved from the sea floor in the early 20th century. The Artifacts are an arrangement of mechanistic components and devices with sharp lines and hard edges, countered by the sweeping, undulating, plantlike tendrils which envelop them. They are an imagining of an ambiguous ancient technology, left by a forgotten civilization to be reclaimed by nature and subsequently fossilized. They are a contemplation upon what may yet be left undiscovered about our history and place upon the planet, about our relationship with technology, and a consideration of what objects of our present we will leave for archaeologists millennia into the future to discover.
