Media Vita Paul Tuppeny 2023

Perhaps the most recognisable temporal progression in our environment is the transition made by plants from green, when living, to yellows and browns, as they perish. Our perceptions of all vegetation hold within them these potentialities, even though they are not directly visible to us in any single moment.

The figure stands in the landscape, ‘measuring’ its changes. The graphic that she holds is adapted from the sliding heater controls of a car, only here it is life and its passing that are in balance.

The sculpture makes present our perceptual inferences, labelling the landscape with durational  qualities that extend beyond our present vision.