A multimedia installation created for Eden Unearthed 23 to actively grow and change while encouraging participation with the space over the six month exhibition.
'Seeding Kairos Time' allowed embodied engagement with earth versus human time . The invitation to ‘step into the labyrinth’ enabled a conscious slowing down, to witness a domain of plant regeneration unfolding and rebuilding; from bare earth and stone, succession in ecological terms is a slow dance between species and complexity; forming seed, building fertile ground.
This expanding terrain explores living connections through notions of succession, disturbance, custodianship and offers the ancient Greek term - Kairos - as a threshold in human awareness of cosmic time. To cross from everyday routine to into earth time, Kairos connects understanding consequence with a critical moment for action.
To enter the labyrinth and slowly and purposefully walk into the meditative space embodies archaic tradition from cultures across the world. The form invites self-reflection and a contemplative threshold into earth time.
The work was extended through weaving workshops exploring concepts and designs intrinsic to the work - seed forms through biological species in primary succession, time, interdependence and adaptive change.