For his MA show, a portal structure of found Rhododendron tree, steel, wire, plaster, latex, ceramic, sand, glitter, paint and pigment fuse together in states of opposition, rising from a bed of sand and rubble. A stop motion animation film, The Sands of Blue Tears, brings us into a mythic, dream-like story of animals voyaging through landscapes that hum with mystery and animate force. At times, the animals are growing from and being consumed by the ground they walk on. We see them quest and search for nests among a blue, glittering, changing world.
Central to Jack’s practice is the creation of immersive worlds of texture, sound and story. This world, or these worlds, that we find ourselves in are collapsing, mutating, growing and emerging. Animals crumble into sand and trees grow into seas. How does it feel to live in this crumbling world, or how could it feel? As our world breaks down and falls apart, can we re-discover a way to garner knowledge from the stars and animals, and let them guide us? Can we find connection, and solace, in something beyond? Is it possible to find enchantment in collapse?
