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My work as an artist is all about regeneration and nature and I use waste to a create a dialogue about our impact on the world as well as the human cost of consumption. This was an old ladder, discovered in ancient woodland, discarded and left to decompose for decades. I fell in love with it and have been wanting to work with it for years, to demonstrate how resect for materials, objects and mending are all part of our sustainable future. Each mended joint is like a little experimental sculpture in cloth and wax, wheat paste and thread.
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With string, paste, beeswax and threadbare cloth, the broken ladder is mended.
In times of climate catastrophe, and species loss all we can do is mend.
In my work, I aim to practice what I preach. Not just sustainable and regenerative in principle, but also in practice. My thinking is, everything I make should be suitable for feeding to my compost worms – truly biodegradable and for feeding back to the earth, locking in carbon. Now, obviously, this ladder would need an ENORMOUS wormery but in principle……..
This sculpture measures 270 x 10 x 40cm (it will need approximately 1m space out from the wall)
Medium: Eroded wooden ladder, scrap cloth, wheat paste, beeswax, woollen yarn, linen thread, string, broken belt.
Designed by Lydia Needle. in Somerset
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