In my artistic practice, I have come to understand the act of creation as an alchemical process. One where the very essence of materials, regardless of their perceived worth, is transformed through the artist’s touch. In collaboration with Charlotte Kidger of Studio Tip, we blended her innovative plastic waste materials with the remnants of my own workshop, forging what we named ‘waste marble.’

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This material, born from the discarded fragments of labor and life, serves as a poetic embodiment of the core tenet that all art requires is for the artist to engage with what is immediately available, to begin from the point where they stand. It is an assertion that true creation does not depend on rarity or preciousness, but on the capacity to see potential in that which is often overlooked, to invoke a transformation that transcends conventional value systems., and more, to supercede value judgements.

This philosophy extends beyond a mere practical application of materials to a deeper ontological reflection on materialism itself. I do not simply manipulate the substances at hand; I am, in essence, contiguous with them. To be material is to be part of the same continuum, to exist in an undivided physiology with the world a one organism. This understanding rejects the hierarchical distinctions that divide the ‘useful’ from the ‘useless,’ the ‘valuable’ from the ‘degraded.’

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The dirt collected in the corners of a car park, the discarded plastic, the dust of forgotten labor—all are imbued with the same transformative potential as the most revered sculptural mediums. Through the alchemy of waste, I seek to transcend the temporal and social boundaries that define worth, proposing that every material, in its raw and unrefined state, holds an inherent capacity to embody meaning. In this, the work becomes a meditation on the fluidity of value, the poetics of the overlooked, and the spiritual resonance found in the most mundane of substances. In the hands of the artist, even the most discarded elements can transmute into something profound, reminding us that creation itself is a continual process of remaking and reinvention. this philosophy has obvious resonance in my work with people and my own vision of myself.