Silent Witness
This work is an exploration of the relationship between language and surface. How words can be embedded within a surface, preserved, and felt as much as they are read. The language is not the direct communication, it's something left behind, enduring. Silent Witness reflects on how emotions can be contained and internalised, accumulating beneath a composed exterior. How what is unspoken can still leave a lasting physical imprint.
Silent Witness, Plaster, 2026, 30cm x 22cm x 8cm
THE PROCESS
The work began with a wooden framework used to cast a solid plaster block. Once cured, the surface became the ground for hand‑carved text, cut using a font associated with gravestones to evoke permanence and remembrance. After carving, the block was worked through hours of manual chipping, creating a textured, weathered surface. The final form holds both the enduring clarity of the inscription and the physical traces of the labour that shaped it.