Abstract

This artwork is born out of an altered paradigm for creativity based upon an imagined connectedness to Jeju Island explored through the material Scoria. In the absence of physical place the material substance of Jeju Island, ‘Scoria’, provides a conduit for exploration and expression. Connection and interpretation are explored and expressed through a filmic layering of history, myth, folklore, metaphor and anthropocenic application - emanating from the material Scoria and its ubiquitous value within the society and environment of Jeju Island. The medium of clay ‘Scoria’ is expressed through the lens of film where the material moves beyond documentation and the nature of clay as static is expanded through the integration of film, which aims to construct an extended visual language derived from material performativity. The artwork explores clay/scoria as multi-media performance and explores and implements clay as a critical and conceptual tool engendered through extended approaches to medium and process.