
Walks on Walks is the culmination of reducing the materiality of a painting to the minimum.
Repurposing the RAF office tiles previously used at Life between the tiles and Soil, Floor, Soil, Floor to make a painting without paint, I used stoppers and sulphate acid to play with the tiles' own time and materiality, corroding some areas more than others.
Inspired by a walk around London Epping Forest these pieces talk about the floors and soils we walk on: there’s not much wild nature left, there’s often a marked path to follow.
These tiles are commonly used in offices as they can be easily removed to change the electric cables placed underneath them. They are very difficult to recycle and their lifespan is 25 years, when they are replaced by their young sisters. These are just examples of the quantity of trash that is thrown into the landfill everyday; specifically portraying the construction sector waste. Construction and housing sectors represent 38% of carbon emission in the UK. Besides that, around 35 million tonnes of non recyclable waste derived from the construction sector ends up in landfill every year in this country.
WALKS ON WALKS.
RAF tiles (sulphate acid).
120 x 120 cm.
2023.

WALKS.
Etching.
60 x 60 cm.
2023.

WALKS ON A TILE.
RAF tile (sulphate acid).
60 x 60 cm.
2023.
Walks on a Tile, Sinking my Toes (exhibition detail), 2023, Calcio Gallery, London.