sensual speculative objects

how can the botanical environments surrounding human extraction practices inform an understanding of our current pursuit of fossil fuels.

should i be using / infiltrating the objects used in these practices…

the high-vis
rubber gloves
metal checks
instruments that make noise… machinery/traffic…
tooth paste / cosmetics (that use coal)

connect these objects with the materials / non human that act / protest / resist

red shale… silts, clays -by products / sandstones that line coal seams
sensate plants – plants that are either pollutant sensitive or hyperaccumulators / bio/phytoremediators
architectures that visualise geological stratum – call seams seen through mine entrances

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gloves

what would it feel like putting on a glove made from fine sands/clays/shales… other types of stratum that lie next to coal that are excavated in the process and dumped in tips.

the high vis

the high-vis gillet is used to create visibility. could use it as an object that makes something ‘visible’ through its patter..

would be interesting to use the effect light some how – through metal engraving that changes a shiny surface to matt so it wouldn’t reflect light when lit up…

thinking about non-human cartographies as a subject matter to be the pattern of the vest..

graphic depicting the placements of know coal mines over geological data of the coal seams in the uk…

architectures of extraction become autographic visualisations of latent geology…

could even be derived and be ‘usable’ maps that included postcodes / coordinates – so that they could be visited in a sort of ritualistic / pilgrimage

checks

checks are brass and alloy metal disks theatre used to check in and out of shift. maybe interest object to critically recreate…

wondering if this is a place to infiltrate the smell senes …. could make beads from the ‘sensitive’ plants like to used to do with rosaries (made from boiled down roses