Becky Lyon
Embodies of Arboreal Time, 2022
Unique print for the Art in Flux Archive Collection
Photogrammetry scan collage | 40 x 50cm
Going deeper still
The energy is viscous
I enter your time
Together we slip time
I feel all flooshie and slippy
I’m folding into you, or maybe fluiding
We portal into each other.
This piece is about finding sanctuary and solace by re-weaving into our ecology, it’s about slipping out of our restraining human chronocentrism and into more-than-human time, in this case the slowth of arboreal (tree) time. The images are comprised of interwoven photogrammetry scans of my own body and the body of a 2000 year old ancient yew (London’s oldest living thing).
The energy is viscous
I enter your time
Together we slip time
I feel all flooshie and slippy
I’m folding into you, or maybe fluiding
We portal into each other.
This piece is about finding sanctuary and solace by re-weaving into our ecology, it’s about slipping out of our restraining human chronocentrism and into more-than-human time, in this case the slowth of arboreal (tree) time. The images are comprised of interwoven photogrammetry scans of my own body and the body of a 2000 year old ancient yew (London’s oldest living thing).
About the artist:
Becky Lyon
https://www.elasticfiction.co/ | @elastic_fiction
Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican artist and ‘artecologist’ exploring how art practice can illuminate and re-enchant relationships to our animate and inter-relational ecology. Her work manifests in multiple forms from tactile installations to rituals, sensory artifacts to participatory gatherings. She hosts numerous events, gatherings and workshops designed to excite and inspire people to build more care-full connections with ecology for the likes of School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe Berlin, Natural England and The London Interdisciplinary School. She is also a ranger for London National Park City connecting people to nature through art. She has an MA Art & Science from Central Saint Martins.
Currently she is...convening the Squishy Sessions exploring the intersection of touch x tactility x care; contemplating "earthly curriculums" and dialoguing with dead wood; brewing up tactile seminars for the "Sentient Performativities" conference in Devon and the "Sticky Matters" stream at the London Critical Conference; hosting EARTHSHAPES monthly gatherings tuning into the rhythms of the season; ripping up the reading group format with the B|T|W|N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/compost Reading Group; rebodying with London's ancient woodland ecology at Goldsmiths University; drafting a paper on "Sensuous Ecologies" and dreaming up an artist-led forest school for grown ups! |