“Whilst at Rupert my research has been focused on traditional artefacts, especially amulets, and the dynamics of sacrificial and burial rituals. The body of work that resulted is born out of a desire to restore forms of knowledge that slip out of time and is a continuation of a broader exploration of the organisation of matter and intention needed for the sacred to emerge.

I was drawn to amulets of animal teeth and amber found at burial sites in Neolithic Lithuania and Europe and how they reveal a mode of production that does not separate the sacred from the secular.

By looking at the apotropaic quality of these amulets I wished to retrace a thought-form that sees objects as being able to move energy, to change probabilities across the structure of reality.

The titles of the works, Axis Mundi, refer to the possibility of these objects to become ‘embodied junctions’ of the Axis Mundi, acting as tools to breach the space between the different dimensions of reality.

Beeswax, wool grease, propolis, second-hand animal fur and amber dust are some of the materials used for the works Axis Mundi. Their use is centred around protecting the knowledge on the surface of the objects. These materials function as archives of information and can act as gateways into larger cycles of transformation of matter on earth.”