Unresolved Residue Installation (2025), ingredients and used rosemary plant developer in test tubes, 300cm x 150cm x 20cm

Working with rosemary developer can stimulate the human sense of smell and memory, whilst visual information registers distinct colours.

My practice is a layering, a jumping (Akomolafe and Ladha, 2017) [1] between processes tethered to geological materiality. This installation is aimed to be read through sensory registers.

Rosemary thrives in dry conditions; it grows well on the porous limestone structure of Cotswold stone that allows water to drain through its oolitic structure (Even Deeper).

The test tubes are filled with previously used plant developer, its colour echoing the earthy yellow of the stonewall (Made of Echo/ Indeterminate Emergence/ Even Deeper). The tones of the developer change over time (Barad, 2007) [2] as the liquid oxidises and darkens further.

As the essential oils of the rosemary evaporate, they fill the space with their scent. This sensory piece attempts to be experienced through the changing of colour, evaporation and a fleeting scent of the liquid that has in its recent past collaborated and facilitated mineral surface activation (Indeterminate Emergence).

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Sensing a process rather than measuring outcomes, opening out toward a conversation with strata and geological processes, reflecting with care for deep time processes and their materiality, turning ourselves toward strata that can be the beginning of an impactful collaboration with geological processes, with the potential to spark questions for an ethics that is in vibrant and lively connection with strata.

(Andreotti, 2025) [3] refers to the trauma the world experiences today as a result of the separation from nature and encourages us to build new imprints in our neurobiology to encounter this sense of worthlessness that separation can evoke.

As well as trauma, separation creates a sense of hierarchy between species and cultures. She suggests we need to integrate ourselves back into the metabolism of nature and see collapse as a threshold, encouraging us to be in good relation and hold frequency as a form of agency.

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