Natalie Tozer

FuturePast01

2022

Graphite, paper, tar-seal, emerald crystal mineral specimen

360mm (H) x 250mm (W) x 35mm (D)

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Artist Statement

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.

About the Artist

Natalie Tozer

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.

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