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Aurea Catena 

Woven stained porcelain

300cm x 50cm

This piece was made for Anima, a group show I curated in Caroline Gardens Chapel, Peckham. It draws on the history of the magic carpet, originating in the prayer rug as a means of travelling to another land through the power of thought. Anima is taken here as the animating principle by which the inanimate object can form the basis of imaginary voyage, as in eighteenth century Frenchman Xavier de Maistre’s ‘Voyage around my Room’, in which he chronicles the furniture of his prison as if describing scenes from a journey to strange lands. 











































































  • Isobel Church
  • The Vanishing Act
  • Messengers
  • Arch Form
  • Unswept Sky
  • Scribe
  • Dreamers
  • Siren
  • Nine Worthies
  • ex nihilo
  • Odes
  • Strange Contents
  • Passages
  • Archive/Other
  • Contact
  • Projects/CV