🔥⚱️ Forged in Pandemonium: the Concept Pieces
The companion piece to Mutation Quartet, four concept pieces cast in wax and copper after leaving university, the year nobody thought a two-person module was worth marking.
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🥀🖤 Rot With a Witness
A half-arsed flower park in Sweden, a near-black dahlia my father and I grew every year, and what’s left of care once it can’t save anything.
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🌍💬 ‘Ta, Love’: When Warmth Sounds Wrong
On British working-class language, tone policing, and what happens when ‘ta’ and ‘luv’ get mistaken for unprofessionalism. Warmth as class marker, not small talk.
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⛵💀 The Art of Looking Impressive While Going Nowhere (Since 1628)
What a seventeenth-century maritime cock-up reveals about mission statements, national branding, and the tyranny of the well-maintained surface.
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🪙🎰 A Fortune in Coppers
The first thing is the noise. Coins on coins, a thousand 2ps shoved back and forth under glass, the whole arcade roaring with it, and somewhere underneath, the electronic gurgle of machines promising more than they ever paid. That and…
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🗣️⚖️ The Tyranny of the Tender
Found where a substantial amount of do-gooders bloom the loudest and the weakest minds in the room sets the rules. This is a written response…
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💎👑 From common as muck to the Royal College of Art 🤯
Crowdfunding tuition for an accepted student bridging working-class roots and elite art education.
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🍄💀 Sanctified Decay
This text is drawn from the Rotwhite Archive, expanded here as a written companion to Decay for Clout. The Rotwhite Expanse is not a place. It is a diagnosis.
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💀🍬 Deadweight
This text was written as a companion to The Sweetness of Damage. A condensed extract was submitted as part of a written portfolio application to the Royal College of Art. What follows is the original text from which that extract was drawn.
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🐰🧠 Third Person Memory Collapse
This text was written as a companion to Undulating Husk: Memory Vessels. A condensed extract of approximately 200 words was submitted as part of a written portfolio application to the Royal College of Art.
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🐰💔 Goodbye, Muffy
This is a journal entry written at the time of Muffin’s passing, reproduced here as part of the Corrode & Crown archive. It is the source material from which the work developed.
