Irregular Balance is an experimental project, attempting to interrupt binaries between the organic and the inanimate, nature and 'man', carrier bags and tools, the beautiful and the ugly, the straight and the twisted. I trialled materials such as pins, potatoes (with rhizome roots sprouting), string and medical paraphernalia like tape. I also explored the forms taken by arboreal constructions & deconstructions in local parks around London. 

Yellow flower "Irregular Balance"
Sewing machine "Irregular Balance"
Tree reflection in window "Irregular Balance"
Plant stem "Irregular Balance"
Medical paraphernalia "Irregular Balance"
Tied plant "Irregular Balance"
Tied plant "Irregular Balance"
Tree and stake opposite Canary Wharf "Irregular Balance"
Tree and stake Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Tree and stake Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Tree and ivy Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Wonky tree Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Log stumps Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Woodland area Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Log stumps Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Log stump bench Haggerston Park "Irregular Balance"
Tied sewing machine "Irregular Balance"

Through the oscillatory disentanglement and reconstitution of a dilapidated sewing machine, constrictions of time, the body and cultivations of nature were reinterpreted during a performative piece. I untangled the twine encompassed Singer sewing machine and re-worked it with pinned rose-bush leaves from a graveyard. I unravelled and reconstructed while speaking about some of the ideas behind the materials and performance for an MA seminar. 

Photographic works made next to St Paul's Church Yard, Deptford and in Haggerston Park, London. Performative piece shared at London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle. (Spring, 2019).

Oscillate exhibition flyer MAPJD at Safehouse Peckham
"Irregular Balance" exhibited at Safehouse Peckham next to the work of Tim Boddy - Oscillate Exhibition
"Irregular Balance" exhibited at Safehouse Peckham next to the work of Tim Boddy - Oscillate Exhibition
"Irregular Balance" exhibited at Safehouse Peckham  - Oscillate Exhibition

Irregular Balance exhibited in group show, Oscillate, next to the work of photographer Tim Boddy.

Safehouse, Peckham.

June 2019.

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