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Tom Beeson

Embodied Narratives

Presently we are staggering from an exploitative past towards a potentially more sustainable future. This is the story of our age. This narrative can be told in geological terms through ‘superficial deposits’ and ‘artificial deposits’.

 

The Midlands landscape that for millennia provided nutrition and nurture for all forms of life, was also the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Diminished now, subjected to human avarice, exploitation and the brutality of Global Commerce by humankind.

 

The Industrial Revolution from 1760 for 225 years changed not only this landscape but impacted across the world. The story of the tumultuous events of this time reverberates deep within our landscape and is recorded in the very ground we tread daily.

 

My work seeks to examine the residue of the turbulence in the ground that documents the legacy of the Industrial Revolution. Giving expression to the very materials and minerals that were regarded as ‘waste’.

 

 

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