Earth Carried marks the beginning of my research at the start of my MFA – a foundational body of work developed and exhibited at Bath Spa University. This installation brings together fabric, soil, and process, using site-responsive practices to build a tactile dialogue with landscape and memory.

The fabric works were created by dyeing cloth with residues from the Dorodango-making process – a method of forming polished mud balls traditionally used in Japan. Each piece of fabric was embedded with the soils, pigments, and waters from the places I gathered earth to form the Dorodango spheres. The cloth holds the marks of the making – stained, rubbed, pressed and weathered – becoming a kind of skin or memory of the process.