toast

Toast captures the increasingly common global devastation of wildfires. From one angle, the sculpture is a vibrant forest scene, complete with a miniature great spotted woodpecker; another angle reveals the total annihilation of this colourful scene, now hollow and charred from a sweeping wildfire. The torched textures are reference to how rising temperatures, prolonged drought and monoculture planting intensify fire frequency and devastation. Viewers are pulled into the visceral aftermath of environmental trauma and the grief of ecological loss.