Lacunae (soothsayer)
Jesmonite, coal dust, obsidian disk
90 x 150 cm
2025
Lacunae (Soothsayer) centres on absence as a condition produced through extraction. Drawing on the forms of mine shafts, caves, and geological seams, the work mimics the surfaces of LiDAR scans and 3D models, translating landscape into data and back into sculptural form. This process reflects a cycle in which the earth is extracted, imaged, and reconstituted, collapsing distinctions between material and digital. Cast in jesmonite and coal dust, the sculpture holds both presence and void, with its hollow core acting as a site of projection. A scrying mirror embedded within the form signals the future-oriented consequences of extraction, positioning absence not only as a trace of what has been removed, but as an active indicator of ecological turbulence.