I’m delighted to say that I’ve been shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize for my submission Morphoses: On Nature’s Processes and Processed Nature. My book explores three substances - carbon, calcium and collagen. All are substances that are intrinsic to the human body, all are substances we extract from the natural world, and all are used in the production of art.
To celebrate I thought I’d carbonise something, and I settled on a pencil. The wood split and curved in response to the heat, exposing the graphite core. So here’s to making marks, writing words and continued transformation.
You can read about all the shortlisted entries here.
