'liquid strata: argomorphs'

Upwards of four thousand bundles of scientific instrumentation (argo floats) continuously drift in the worlds ocean for years, their regular dives into the dark depths our means of sensing below the waves. Yet, the points they sample might be best considered each as distant each-other as ourselves to the nearest star in our galaxy. The spectre of the voids in-between the sparse fragments of data remain ever present as we attempt to extract meaning from them, further challenged by that we can but sample small fragments of data (temperature, salinity, etc.). As each argo float dives repeatedly, they dive not through water deserts, but multitudes of ecosystems, what they cannot sense still surrounds them.

The work consists of metal sculptures, chimerical figures, intended to explore the generative entanglement of our distributed sensory organs with the denizens of the ecosystems through which they regularly traverse. Each sculpture exploring different morphologies and patterns from the various species found at different depths. Machine and life forming an embodiment of the diversity, singularity, and uncanniness of uncharted ecosystems in the ocean.

Alongside them, as a further contextualisation, video work is added to layer data & simulations based upon results from the Argo program. A play on the infamous mention of dragons on the Hunt Lennox Globe, 'here be monsters' echoes as a phrase throughout, attempting to trace the contours of the monstrous in both the unknown, and our impact upon it.

This work is a continuation of 'liquid strata', a work which took the form of a meditative installation focussing on the phenomena of marine snow in the mesopelagic.