WE MADE LINES IN THE EARTH

We Made Lines in the Earth brings a psychological lens to our human-managed landscapes. Thin watery paint washes across 12mm plywood. A laser is programmed to trace and engrave satellite imagery of human interventions in the landscape. The plywood is sanded to reveal the archaeology of the wood’s industrial production process. Layers of information emerge like historic earthworks in a drought. The image is further worn where geographic data tells us the environment is under pressure from grazing and deforestation.

The resulting artefact could be a worn out map of an ancient civilisation - or a new form of contemporary landscape painting, hewn from artificial and natural materials, to reflect the times we now live in.