FLUX CONCERTINA

Flux_ Concertina (2024) is a series of selected printed photos designed within a concertina format to best symbolise the passage of time and then folded into a customised transparent and delicate packaging to reveal the content of the artwork and to express care for nature.

Ferracin is visually documenting the flows of living matter and biodiversity over a two-year period onto four man-made waterproof polyester canvases left in the wild.

As the time passes by, the appearance and disappearance of the four canvases alternates local biodiversity to micro-organic interventions in collaboration with micro-macro organisms living between the soil surface and the fabrics.

Gradually, the original fabrics become covered by layers of leaves litter and organic matter while exposed to the seasonal weather and temperature and captured in real time by the photo camera. Some prints are showing traces of wattle and eucalyptus flowers and small ponds of water collected during heavy rains.

The result is an alchemic and fertile substrate of marks, imprints, multi strata of dust and leaves, organic matter, decolouration, mushroom mycelium and roots which reveal the invisible and restless adaptation to the change by the local biodiversity and its ecosystem.