'do Chemistry with water'

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I had previously tried to use soap in my work, when given the Crypt project. I had been surrounded by lithography's jargon, and saponification came about many times. The chemical processes were alluring and the material not only echoed Arte Povera's palette but it also embodied the idea of cleaning. At the time I was influenced by yet another oil spill in one of the rivers of the Amazon in Peru, so I thought of using oil - olive, cypress and walnut oil - as opposed to crude as a symbolic act of cleaning the waters. I enjoyed the plasticity of the material and when I came across Biomimicry's set of rules I was enthused by the "do chemistry with water" principle to experiment further with it.

The mountains were innocent again

Soap, shale

Very simply, a surreal proposal and experimentation as if the replacement of soil by soap could clean the land. This was also an opportunity to see how soap behaves when attached to other materials (other than rubber, which I had used before) and consider its technical sculptural aspect. I think soap is a relevant material to my practice and I will continue to use it.

you can't now wash your hands

Soap (olive and almond oil, lie, blood, water), perspex offcuts

Inspired by the helplessness of our societal system when it comes to our involvement with corporations that perpetuate a fossil fuel driven society, this piece is about inaccessibility: both embodied by the guarded container and the fact the even if one could access the rock-soap to use it as soap, the user would be washing their hands with my blood, leaving blood on their hands. We are all culprits to some extent or other, as the system that guards our interests prevents us to reach out for devices that could help solve the problem: at the moment it's only an illusion, because capitalism is able to assimilate all ideologies, even the so called "green revolution".