Decoy, 2025/26
Graduate project
Glasgow School of Art, Stow Buiding
School of Fine Art Degree Show
28/05/26 - 07/06/26
Exhibition text excerpt:
This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location… it increases towards a center… the center of danger is here…
of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill…*
*Sandia National Laboratories, Trauth, K. M. and Hora, S. C. & Guzowski, R. V. (1993)
Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
“...In looking to the undercurrents of the built environment and its by-products, the broader relationship between the human body and the environmental systems that have been built within a schema shaped by military, technological, and industrial structure is investigated. Recognisable forms of home or the natural world become suspect and troubled, and a consistent visual of cold grey matter dominates much of the images.
Alongside this, the inherent destructive nature of humanity is also at question – are we so seduced by our own ruin?”
Full exhibtion text avaiable here