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RESEARCH INTERESTS, 2025. During MA.
Meaning. Value. Heritage. Heresy.
I am interested in the concept of value, and how words imbue even the most mundane objects with meaning. There is privilege in having access to the approved words. To be equipped with the authority to change perception of what is valued, preserved, protected, packaged up and sold. Commodification and consumption of knowledge sold as an antidote to uncertainty. The irresistible comfort of surrender to systems and dogma. Tell us what to think so that we may be free of the burden of free will.
RESEARCH interests (2024, during BA)
artists
Links to artists who have inspired me recently:
Collages by Dewey Saunders Dewey Saunders Studio
Tom Thomson's Northern Lights 1916 or 1917 Northern Lights | National Gallery of Canada
Paterson Ewen Paterson Ewen | Art Canada Institute (aci-iac.ca)
The early works of Mark Rothko. Particularly this piece, The Omen of the Eagle (nga.gov)
Salouda Raouda Choucair's sculptures Saloua Raouda Choucair | Tate Modern
Gaston Chaissac at the Pompidou Gaston Chaissac - Centre Pompidou
The primal canvases of Marta Spagnoli Marta Spagnoli | Artist | Galleria Continua
The deeply thought-provoking work of Katie Paterson Artwork | Katie Paterson
science, environment and technological research
Links to some of my current areas of interest:
The Bruce Murray Space Image Library The Bruce Murray Space Image Library | The Planetary Society
Cobalt Mining: The Dark Side of the Renewable Energy Transition Cobalt Mining: The Dark Side of the Energy Transition | Earth.Org
The origin of the word cobalt From Kobolds to Goblins: The Full History of How Cobalt Got Its Name (strategic-metal.com)
The Geopolitics of Cobalt - American Affairs Journal
Digitalizing consumer society: equipment and devices of digital consumption (oclc.org)
The Impact of Digital Technologies | United Nations
Are Batteries the New Oil? - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP
What is Space Junk and why is it a problem? What is space junk and why is it a problem? | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
Satellites Study quantifies satellite brightness, challenges ground-based astronomy | ScienceDaily
The Bronze Age Nebra Sky Disc Nebra Sky Disc: British Museum to display world's 'oldest map of stars' - BBC News
Dr Katherine (Katie) Mack, theoretical astrophysicist. KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST (astrokatie.com) and for a special treat, listen to her poem "Disorientation" at Disorientation: A Science Poem by Katie Mack | College of Sciences (ncsu.edu)
An interactice map of the world's light pollution. Light pollution map
EU crackdown on greenwashing and planned obsolescence is official (eunews.it)
literature (special mentions)
BREAKDOWN by Cathy Sweeney Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney | W&N - Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949 (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) I devoured this book in one day. It is incredible.
The Way Home by Mark Boyle The Way Home | Book by Mark Boyle | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com) To say I am obsessed with this book is an understatement.