deposition (WiP) /

an installation surveying the restoration of an ancient water catchment system, sustainable, subsistence living and the establishment of a perennial food forest in the dry lands of the mediterranean steppe.

A restoration codex mapping precipitation, evaporation, condensation and transpiration within a novel ecosystem. One hundred bas-relief béton brut tablets (1000 x 400mm) each defining horizontal space within a water catchment system and mounted at the keypoint (where the force of water movement changes from erosive to deposition), at once a database for ecological regeneration and spatial / temporal landform delineation.

Add the plus code in the title of the work to google maps and you will be taken to the keypoint of the water catchment system. The work represents this point within the subject area topology.

This piece was first exhibited in the exhibition ‘reimagining joya’ an exhibition inspired by the experiences and artistic responses of a group of artists, graduates from Central St Martins MA in art and science, who have all participated in Joya: arte + ecología / AiR residency.

Recycled wood used in the formwork will be up-cycled annually to create yearly small edition woodblock prints. Each edition will act as a database of the ecological regeneration of the subject area.

Deposition (WiP) is a work in progress, the concrete* installation to be completed by Easter 2026. The keypoint is a body of water to be utilised in a variety of ways, irrigation for an organic vegetable garden, cooling for increasing summer heat and assisting micro hydrological cycles. The water is naturally filtered via a regeneration zone populated with aquatic plants in addition to particle filtration and oxygenation.