Linda Zeb Hang
PATTERN EROSION, 2018
Hand carved negative space weaving on raised mesh canvas, whip stitched gradient binding, 3 stack elements: 36 signatures, 72 plate units
11 × 13.5 × 1.5 in (27.94 × 34.29 × 3.81 cm) (each stack)
11 × 27 × .75 inches (27.49 × 68.58 × 1.905 cm) (spread)
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During a residency in Humboldt County, California, I was struck by the natural birth phenomena, critical food geography, and politics of survival within the Far Northern California back-to-the-land movement, an experience which left a profound impact on the way I think about space travel, ecology, and ethnography.
Guided by my research and experience in the science of wound contraction these soiled, sedimented plastic book carcasses, with elements of gold, purple and black matter — known for spirited expansion, industry and pollution — patterns the toxicology of greed on the environment.
Climate insecurities and policies of exhaustion are embedded into the plastic soil as negative space weavings, carving paths of root network and currency systems, collective electric circuitries and life cycle rituals to realise topographical traumas. Technology and the concept of capitalism erodes into fossilized chambers of abstraction; nature invades and calibrates, healing its wound only by changing shape.
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