KEUNYSER

Keunyser' (meaning 'fuel gatherer' in the Cornish language), is a project using large lumps of Seacoal from the sea floor unintentionally caught by trawling fisherman and brought to shore. The work looks at the contradictions a material can embody, at first responsible for the industrial progress of human beings, now responsible for the potential collapse of many human systems and a metaphor for the loss of many livelihoods across the Cornish peninsula. The work itself is an act of labour, documenting markings on paper created through repetitive and physical movements which inevitably end in the degradation of the material itself.

I aim to interact with the dirt of a place, to occupy eddies in the flow and let them make their own mark. In a world both swirling with meaning and devoid of it, I look for gestures in the noise. As humanity speeds ever faster away from the past, we are left uncertain, facing issues both of existential gravity and time worn predictability, I look for the pieces discarded in society's wake.

The photographic documentations of process and movement along with the Seacoal paper indexes themselves will come together in book form and be printed using the Risograph process.