Holocene'

'Holocene'
Inspired by the natural world and responding to its power, its fragility and how it is affected by human development and industrialisation, Alex Duncan's major new installation portrays a possible future scenario of how the natural world may be.
Debris of the modern world - polyurethane foam pebbles - a by-product of the oil industry that the artist has collected from the coastline become monumentally enlarged to wash up on a rising sea. Duncan sees these objects as part of a rolling history, of copper smelting, coal extraction and oil refinery.
Our complicated relationship to the environment is brought under scrutiny, Duncan exposes the intertwinings of man on nature and nature on man in an uncertain future where these boulders may yet hold true and exist, washed up on a surge of environmental change.

'holocene' locws international 2011

The original site for my work at swansea bay. The piece is now displayed at The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/ .

These two decided to see if they could surf the boulder into shore!

'holocene'

locws international 2011

This image documents part of my installation, 'Holocene' for the current Locws International arts event held in Swansea.

common love

Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming April 27 "resituates love within contemporary sociopolitical discourse" http://tinyurl.com/6dr9tty

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Lau Tzu

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefitting the myriad creatures without contending them and settles where none would like it to be, it comes close to the way. In a home it is the site that matters; In quality of mind it is depth that matters; In an ally it is benevolance that matters; In speech it is good faith that matters; In government it is order that matters; In affairs it is ability that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters. It is because it does not contend that it is never at fault. Translated by D.C. LAU