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Imbricating No.2 2020 29 x 20 x 20 cm photography Robert Chadwick
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Imbricating No.3 2020 21 x 18 x 18 cm photography Robert Chadwick
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detail of Imbricating No.1 photography Robert Chadwick
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Imbricating No.1 2020 26 x 24 x 24 cm photography Robert Chadwick
Soft-Capping 2021 process performance filmed by the artist
“a precarious world is a world without teleology”
Imbricating No.1 2020 26 x 24 x 24 cm photography Robert Chadwick
‘Soft-capping’ is a historical preservation method wherein turf made of mosses, grasses and soil is place onto the top of the architecture to preserve the stone from degradation.This method drew me to Hailes Abbey a 15th c ruin as a place of inquiry into the facilitation of preservation with nature, as well as it’s terminology; soft. As a historical preservation method soft-capping is juxtaposed with the traditional ‘hard-capping’, where layers of petroleum based paint ‘seal’ the stone or fix it within time.
“..stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Each is borne from the clouds separate, but once they have come together, there is no way to tell them apart.
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