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24/11/2025

Structure as Mercy

The lamellae read left to right - a silent metronome mirroring respiration, pulse to stillness.

Golden ratio intervals guide each tear and fracture, disciplining the disorder of grief. Each rupture is a small negotiation with entropy: precision meeting surrender. The composition hums quietly with order beneath the surface of loss.

Structure as mercy.

Artist Note:
"I tear paper to understand collapse. Each lamella holds a breath - mine, the coral's, the ocean's - suspended between what was and what remains.

The golden ratio wasn't decoration. It was necessity. Mathematics became my mercy - a way to hold catastrophe without being destroyed by it."

- SRB

22/11/2025

Chromatic Field

The mauve and violet spectrum forms the emotional register of Bloom Residuum.
It's the moment between dusk and dissolution - where colour breathes its last and still lingers.
A tender afterimage.
A spectral pulse.

Colour behaves like tidewater: withdrawing, returning, dissolving again.
Mauve is the midpoint between mourning and light.
Fugitive pigment, deliberate fading - this work is designed to forget itself slowly.
What remains is what resists.

Artist Note: The pigments were chosen for their light instability, designed to fade in parallel with coral's spectral collapse.

07/11/2025

Before 2016: fourteen years between bleaching events.
Since 2016: six events in nine years.

2016. 2017. 2020. 2022. 2024. 2025.

Each lamella marks the shrinking time between collapse -
intervals that were once measured in decades,
now counted in months.

The Great Barrier Reef no longer has time to recover.
These paper structures remember the rhythm that's been broken.

[Material: Hahnemühle Brittania, Vellum, tea-stained, acrylic inked & paint, scored, blind embossed.
Each layer = one interval between thermal stress events.]

03/11/2025

Mauve Field

Colour behaves like tidewater - withdrawing, returning, dissolving again.
Mauve is the midpoint between mourning and light.
Fugitive pigment, deliberate fading: this work is designed to forget itself slowly.

What remains is what resists.

02/11/2025

The Veil of Erasure - 135 lamellae tracing the months between coral bleaching events.

A meditation on memory, material impermanence & ecological grief.

Voice & process by Stephen Russell-Brett
From Spectral Taxonomy (2025)

31/10/2025

Forty-three lamellae. Each hand-torn, stained, and compressed into memory.
Rose and violet hues mark the transition between living coral and its spectral afterimage.
This work studies time through disintegration - a language made entirely of fragility.

Look closely at the torn edges. Every rupture carries a rhythm. Every fracture, a soft echo of decay and bloom. The paper remembers the hand that shaped it.

28/10/2025

The Bloom Residuum lingers after its own collapse.
A mauve residue - neither flower nor shadow - only the temperature of what remains.
Each lamella gathers the afterglow of coral light, suspended between pulse and stillness.

The work opens not with words, but with breath - a quiet spectral exhale.
Forty-three layers.
A taxonomy of loss held in paper.

25/10/2025

Ultramarine Requiem (2025)

Pale paper lamellae washed in spectral blue,
arranged through golden proportion,
their depths unfolding like marine snow.
Between taxonomy and elegy,
the work asks:
Can beauty hold what we’ve lost?

24/10/2025

The Quiet of Grief

Not all loss announces itself.
Some fades - softly, insistently -
until absence becomes its own language.
Ultramarine Requiem mourns through restraint,
inviting stillness where alarm once lived.

23/10/2025

Ultramarine Requiem (2025)

Frosted silence speak /
Depths unravel into blue /
Loss stains the still sea.

The haiku dissolves across the work -
a whisper passing through paper,
a requiem spoken without sound.

20/10/2025

Paper, water, breath.
Each lamella absorbs a different silence.

Blue drifts between layers,
caught and released -
a rhythm like the slow breathing of reefs.

05/10/2025

The Colour That Mourns

Once more precious than gold.
Ultramarine - drawn from stone, dissolved in grief.
A pigment once sacred, now spectral.

The sea remembers through colour,
fading from presence into memory.

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