a figure, figures II
2022
Soil and Compost
size various
‘A Figure, Figures
II’ is a series of temporary sculptures reproduced from soil and compost. This
is an extension work of ‘A Figure, Figures’ - both a data visualization and a
pun, and is presented at the Royal College of Art Graduate Show 2022, Battersea
South campus. The title plays on the polysemous meanings of the word figure, as
both “shape” and “monetary value” which is thus deconstructed and transformed
from one of many visual amenity valuation tools, The Helliwell System. A three
dimensional organic texture, unlike flat Risographs (from A Figure, Figures), seeks to extend another
possibility to contextualize of non-human perspective. This body of artwork
aspires to reveal the evaluation workflow through monetary value and provokes us to consider
the limitations of how humans assess the value of a tree.
