Eden Gard | Carbon
2 Plate Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 45 × 20cm
Paper size: 50 × 25cm
Edition of 12
£350 unframed or £35 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“Energy and transformation have always fascinated me and I have often looked at deep time as a way to understand my identity. Fragments of my being had shaped and warped over the millions of years, forming my bones, my flesh, my brain, which would go on to analyze the same world that it could have been - what makes me so different from the earth beneath my feet when any part of it could have been me?
In a smaller sense, it makes me think about my everyday life, how I am changing and transforming, and just what makes me myself. The struggle to define who I am isn't unlike the struggle to define the complex wider patterns of nature as they shape and reshape infinitely.
“Carbon” illustrates the journey of one of the earth's most simple elements, and a key to all life. It begins at the bottom in the Carboniferous forests of its origin, and slowly travels upwards through time reshaping into the complex machinery it is used in today. Despite transforming into something unrecognizable, soulless, it remains the same carbon that basked as trees under the morning sun in the distant past.”
Eden Gard’s practice focuses on the intersections of science, magic, and occultism; She has a passion for exploring soft sciences and how they interact with societal or cultural beliefs. She often works with motifs of alchemy and witchcraft to deconstruct and reimagine concepts like chaos theory and human psychology. Doing this she aims to create a commentary on how the mind, body and soul interact with the wider universe as we understand it, and the rituals we use to try and define our place in what is undefinable. Her personal experience as a transgender woman also ties deeply into the philosophical side of her work - how the mind and soul connect to the physical form, how in turn this connects to the natural world, and at what point our being and sense of self becomes supernatural.
2 Plate Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 45 × 20cm
Paper size: 50 × 25cm
Edition of 12
£350 unframed or £35 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“Energy and transformation have always fascinated me and I have often looked at deep time as a way to understand my identity. Fragments of my being had shaped and warped over the millions of years, forming my bones, my flesh, my brain, which would go on to analyze the same world that it could have been - what makes me so different from the earth beneath my feet when any part of it could have been me?
In a smaller sense, it makes me think about my everyday life, how I am changing and transforming, and just what makes me myself. The struggle to define who I am isn't unlike the struggle to define the complex wider patterns of nature as they shape and reshape infinitely.
“Carbon” illustrates the journey of one of the earth's most simple elements, and a key to all life. It begins at the bottom in the Carboniferous forests of its origin, and slowly travels upwards through time reshaping into the complex machinery it is used in today. Despite transforming into something unrecognizable, soulless, it remains the same carbon that basked as trees under the morning sun in the distant past.”
Eden Gard’s practice focuses on the intersections of science, magic, and occultism; She has a passion for exploring soft sciences and how they interact with societal or cultural beliefs. She often works with motifs of alchemy and witchcraft to deconstruct and reimagine concepts like chaos theory and human psychology. Doing this she aims to create a commentary on how the mind, body and soul interact with the wider universe as we understand it, and the rituals we use to try and define our place in what is undefinable. Her personal experience as a transgender woman also ties deeply into the philosophical side of her work - how the mind and soul connect to the physical form, how in turn this connects to the natural world, and at what point our being and sense of self becomes supernatural.
2 Plate Photopolymer Etching
Image size: 45 × 20cm
Paper size: 50 × 25cm
Edition of 12
£350 unframed or £35 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“Energy and transformation have always fascinated me and I have often looked at deep time as a way to understand my identity. Fragments of my being had shaped and warped over the millions of years, forming my bones, my flesh, my brain, which would go on to analyze the same world that it could have been - what makes me so different from the earth beneath my feet when any part of it could have been me?
In a smaller sense, it makes me think about my everyday life, how I am changing and transforming, and just what makes me myself. The struggle to define who I am isn't unlike the struggle to define the complex wider patterns of nature as they shape and reshape infinitely.
“Carbon” illustrates the journey of one of the earth's most simple elements, and a key to all life. It begins at the bottom in the Carboniferous forests of its origin, and slowly travels upwards through time reshaping into the complex machinery it is used in today. Despite transforming into something unrecognizable, soulless, it remains the same carbon that basked as trees under the morning sun in the distant past.”
Eden Gard’s practice focuses on the intersections of science, magic, and occultism; She has a passion for exploring soft sciences and how they interact with societal or cultural beliefs. She often works with motifs of alchemy and witchcraft to deconstruct and reimagine concepts like chaos theory and human psychology. Doing this she aims to create a commentary on how the mind, body and soul interact with the wider universe as we understand it, and the rituals we use to try and define our place in what is undefinable. Her personal experience as a transgender woman also ties deeply into the philosophical side of her work - how the mind and soul connect to the physical form, how in turn this connects to the natural world, and at what point our being and sense of self becomes supernatural.
