Counter-Nacre: Bubbles or Pearls?

Counter-Nacre is a new work in progress exploring how value, meaning and significance become attached to objects, images and narratives. Drawing upon archives, found objects and biological processes, the project investigates how fragments acquire identities and how competing interpretations accumulate around the same material.

The project takes its title from nacre formation, the biological process through which an irritant is transformed into a pearl through successive layers of accretion. Counter-Nacre proposes an alternative process: one that resists fixed meanings, interrupts inherited narratives and preserves the possibility of alternative readings.

Current development includes archival research at Kresen Kernow, object collection, casting experiments, photographic work and installation studies.