on porousness

Series of photographs and sketches from fieldwork sessions in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Observing porous materials on the seashore brought me to question the scale of what is called architecture and what inhabits these living surfaces. Boats are both corroded and populated by crustaceans, lichens and foams. Humans can only resist by removing the natural intruders and adding layers of chemicals, season after season. Most of the year, boats wait on the shore tilted with the rhythm of tides, among stranded algae and driftwood.

This collaborative work was presented during the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference on ‘Art, Materiality and Representation’ in 2018.