ambient mattering

ambience exists beyond any notion of conceptuality. conceptuality of any kind, however subtle, implies an aggressive grasping and fixation. (timothy morton, why ambient poetics? outline for a depthless ecology – p52–p56, the wordsworth circle, 33.1, winter, 2002)

the infinite touch of nothingness is threaded through all being/becoming, a tangible indeterminacy that goes to the heart of matter. matter is not only iteratively reconstituted through its various intra-actions, it is also infinitely and infinitesimally shot through with alterity (karen barad, on touching—the inhuman that therefore i am – p8, v 1.1, 2012)

  • mineral passage #2, metaform (calcareous serpulid colony, laguna beach, ca, 2023)

  • mineral passage #3, metaform (bioturbated driftwood, santa cruz, ca, 2023)

• slow unfoldings
• sense >< feel >< imagine
• recognition of ‘the open’
• the uncolonised mind
• ambient mattering
• ambient perception
• ambient reception

coral stereograph

 

 

coral stereograph (circa.1860 amateur naturalist's original, artists collection)

Diagenesis (sound work)

russell burden and craig tattersall
released on laaps records april 2023, digital cd and vinyl
1. fallings
2. settlings
3. turnings
4. fadings
more info invites and commissions

  • diagenesis vinyl (laaps records, brittany, april 2023)

  • flints (st.margaret's bay 2022)

diagenesis cover art (russell burden & craig tattersall 2023)

laguna beach fractal (assemblage - diatomaceous earth & watercolour on card, laguna beach, california, 226mm x 118mm, 2023)

encrustation #1 (St Margarets Bay, Kent, 2020)

mineral passage #1 (glass plate, red and white chalk, ink, gum arabic. hunstanton, norfolk. 500mm x 332mm, 2021)

  • taphonomy #1, crustacea burrow (flint, sandgate 2001)

  • taphonomy #2, coral (flint, sandgate, 2012)

  • taphonomy #3, sponge (chert, sandgate, 2020)

carbonate taphonomies

  • marlstone

  • marlstone

  • chalk

  • chalk

  • wormcasts

  • clam

  • chalk

  • flint

  • chalk

  • clam

  • scallop

  • abalone

  • wormcasts

  • abalone

  • coral

  • scallop

hunstanton fractal (white chalk blocks, iron ink. hunstanton, norfolk. 600mm x140mm, 2021)

  • stratification (quartzite pebble, budliegh salterton)

  • coral pebble (isle of sheppy)