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)

carbonate taphonomies

  • marlstone

  • marlstone

  • chalk

  • chalk

  • wormcasts

  • clam

  • chalk

  • flint

  • chalk

  • clam

  • scallop

  • abalone

  • wormcasts

  • abalone

  • coral

  • scallop

flint holdings

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

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

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

coral stereograph

 

 

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

Diagenesis (sound work)

artist: russell burden and craig tattersall
release: laaps records (france) april 2023, digital cd and vinyl
more info; tributaries – invites and commissions

listen: on bandcamp

tracks
1. fallings
2. settlings
3. turnings
4. fadings

  • 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)

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

  • stratification (quartzite pebble, budliegh salterton)

  • coral pebble (isle of sheppy)