Fallinglight 2023

Copper and silver electroformed organza, sewn through the length of dusk.

A companion piece to ‘What is it that sees through these eyes?’ 2022, this work explores qualities of becoming, through an embodied relationship with atmosphere, materials and time. More specifically, it considers how the qualities of dusk, as a threshold between light and dark, might be felt through the body, and how this state of transformation, where our sense of the separation between things fades, can be manifested through alchemical material processes.

Constructed from a unique ‘threshold’ material made by growing copper and silver into organza, this substance expresses a state of transformation, held in material. Its development was driven by the desire to manifest a temporal edge, where there is a balance felt, for a very short time, between one thing dissolving and another growing into it’s space, as darkness meshes into the fraying light of the day, where invisible and visible come into balance, and we start to feel things more so than seeing them.

The work is reminiscent of a hood, but due to the web-like structure of its internal space, it is unable to be worn. Suggesting to the viewer that it is for their body, and simultaneously resisting this, it maintains an autonomy, hovering on the ‘boundaries’ between subject, object, garment, jewellery and sculpture.

Clockwise from top left:

Fallinglight 2023 (front), copper, silver, organza, bronze armature, hemp cord, 585 x 220 x 200 mm    

Fallinglight 2023 (detail), copper, silver, organza, bronze armature, hemp cord, 585 x 220 x 200 mm       

Fallinglight 2023 (back), copper, silver, organza, bronze armature, hemp cord, 585 x 220 x 200 mm 

Photography: Matthew Stanton