I am a visual artist based in Perth, Scotland. I work primarily in digital photography and print, and I have recently moved into creating sculptural works and installations, exploring my interests in the physicality of ancient geology and the dematerialized aesthetics of contemporary technology.

My recent commissions consider the traces our digital culture is leaving on Earth, evolving and morphing materials transformed into fossilized objects and metamorphic strata. These hybrid, hypnotic digital-mineral works sit playfully against a background of open, natural, and urban landscapes that call into question the sustainability of our contemporary world’s technological fixations.

With the continued demand for refined mineral resources, Earth’s geological matter is increasingly misunderstood as a mere substance, ascribed value only through its conversion into an economic product, particularly products associated with technology. My digital photography and print practice considers our Earth’s own natural power to transform these ancient minerals through time.

Through my work, I explore contemporary narratives, such as the negative environmental and social impacts of sourcing rare earth elements such as copper, lithium, and cobalt—all essential components of contemporary technology. I invite interested audiences to question the industrial use and disuse of our technology and consider the geology of media and where and how these resources travel around the world. I also engage in the concern of natural resource depletion as we physically and irreversibly change Earth’s landscape through excavation and quarrying.

I address sculpturally the physical dimensions of geological materials. For example, the formation, cycles, characteristics, and identification of rocks combined with pixelated colorful glitches or unexpected errors occurring in human technology. Such combinations of ancient rock and digital suggest futuristic collisions of fossilized technology.

What we think we know about tomorrow is based on our planet of yesterday. In other words, understanding our geological landscapes through deep time holds so much information and important clues for our future as to how—as an evolutionary process—the Earth will continue to respond to human consumption. The geological, therefore, is a forecast by distant epochs; materials slowed and transformed over deep time to become unearthed remnants of how we lived.

My future direction is focused on creating work for outdoor and public spaces, as access to and interaction with art outside of galleries and museums brings new ways of interpreting the world around us. Having lived in Scotland for five years, the spectacular scenery and distinctive character have inspired me. Creating such sculptural work upscales and exaggerates familiar geology into unlikely public spaces.