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final year project}

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My final-year project brings together four years of material and conceptual development. Using a technique refined throughout my time at art school, I engraved tendril-like forms directly into resin, carving intricate lines into the hardened surface. By working ink into these incisions, I was able to produce prints on paper and fabric, translating the rigid material of resin into something transferable and tactile.

This body of work was shaped by Donna Haraway’s concept of the Chthulucene, which redirected my research toward a more relational understanding of existence. Challenging the human-centred narrative of the Anthropocene, Haraway proposes a world of interconnected “chthonic ones” — human and nonhuman life entangled in processes of collective becoming.

In reworking and engraving these lines, I began to recognise them as living systems: plants, microorganisms, human and nonhuman forms intertwined. The tendrils no longer operated solely as psychological metaphors, but as expressions of sympoiesis — a shared, tentacular network of mutual responsibility and coexistence across species.