Update: New work with scans and fossils

Here's a bit of work in progress. I've been busy on projects I can't share yet and non-art creative work, so it's nice to have some work to share.

Building on the many scans and all the stones that are cluttering up my space indoors, I'm trying out a new (to me) way of sharing these in public spaces, so I'm testing some outdoor-safe printing of some scans for installation for St Mary's Allotments Art Trail, Leamington Spa in September. The theme is loosely shelter, coverings, outside/inside so I thought of this one of flint fossil of a sponge I found at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve a few years ago. You can see the texture of the creature's jelly exterior but, unlike so many flints where the ancient skeleton has dissolved, this one has been perserved. I remember my surprise when I found it and that weird sense of lifetimes existing at such different times crashing together.

I've been fortunate that the printers gave me the first print that they messed up so I have a spare set to experiment with - thanks Contrado. They will have to be shown with dowels sewn in top and bottom, because they might be hung from trees or a fence, or even garden tools, but I like how they flutter in the wind. I need to work out if you can iron ripstop because getting it wet and crumpling it up really didn't work, however it is waterproof.