NATURE, MADE SYMBOLIC.

More than a phrase, it describes a way of seeing and being in the world.

Meaning is not assigned to the work after it is made. It emerges through the relationship between material and place, between what is observed and what is remembered.

Nature offers a way to contextualise our experiences. A falling leaf gives form to release. A withdrawing tide makes absence visible. A seed pod opening holds rupture and possibility at once. Bark shed from a tree records growth through what has been relinquished.

These are not simple metaphors imposed upon the natural world. They are processes through which experiences of grief, change and renewal can be located within something larger than ourselves.

Grounded in Jude’s postgraduate study in anthropology, the practice considers how meaning arises through lived experience, material form and our connection to the natural world.

Memory of place suspends these experiences between what has passed and what remains. Fragments gathered from a particular landscape carry the trace of an encounter, allowing something fleeting to be rearranged, held and made visible.