Ancestry  Soy ink print on tissue, clay, chalk and spirulina pigments.
c. H3m x D40mm

Ancestry is constructed from folded and layered telescope data printed in soy inks treated with clay-based and cyanobacteria pigments, reflecting on the intimate connections and exchanges between Earth and space, life and non-life. The towering form connects floor to ceiling, evoking a hydrothermal vent – a superheated plume of water that rushes from fissures in the ocean floor, around which ore and mineral deposits form. It is theorised that asteroid impacts on the early Earth contributed to the formation of these hot, chemical-rich environments that were ideal for abiogenesis: the process through which life emerges from non-living matter.