Unearthed contemplates the idea of human-made landscapes where, overtime, layers of urban geology form — inviting reflection on a more-than-humanperspective.
Catriona Robertson, Unearthed, chess set 55x55cm commissioned by Purling, paper-crete, resin, pigments. Robertson imagines a post-human future in which nature reclaims the city through the cracks of its concrete foundations. Eroded surfaces, made from her signature material paper-concrete, emerge as relics excavated from imagined hybrid ecosystems — new-age sediments of the Anthropocene. As synthetic materials intertwine with the organic, they begin to resemble precious marbles or future fossils. Beneath our feet lies a subterranean network of hidden cities, vibrating with unseen energy. By covering the ground with concrete, tar, and bitumen, we disrupt the rhythm of natural ecological cycles— offering little or no benefit to the earth and further disconnecting ourselves from the terra underfoot.
Unearthed contemplates the idea of human-made landscapes where, overtime, layers of urban geology form — inviting reflection on a more-than-humanperspective.
Catriona Robertson, Unearthed, chess set 55x55cm commissioned by Purling, paper-crete, resin, pigments. Robertson imagines a post-human future in which nature reclaims the city through the cracks of its concrete foundations. Eroded surfaces, made from her signature material paper-concrete, emerge as relics excavated from imagined hybrid ecosystems — new-age sediments of the Anthropocene. As synthetic materials intertwine with the organic, they begin to resemble precious marbles or future fossils. Beneath our feet lies a subterranean network of hidden cities, vibrating with unseen energy. By covering the ground with concrete, tar, and bitumen, we disrupt the rhythm of natural ecological cycles— offering little or no benefit to the earth and further disconnecting ourselves from the terra underfoot.
