2022
Graphite, paper, tar-seal, emerald crystal mineral specimen
360mm (H) x 250mm (W) x 35mm (D)
The earth-interior is a treasure trove of strata, and keeps stories of past landscapes. Geologically impermanent, landscapes are continually in motion, a motion which plays a crucial role in maintaining and regulating stable conditions for life on this planet. What we put into the earth today is a message to a future past. This work is a future fossil, a fictional scenario that imagines a future civilisation reconstructing these works as found artefacts. Unearthed with emerald and tar-seal crumbles, a glimpse into deep time.
Natalie Tozer is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland exploring narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. Working with time-based processes and materiality across paper, sculpture and video she is interested in mythology, the code of Hammurabi, debt forgiveness, land ownership, land access, science fiction and anarchist anthropology.