Becoming Soil Drawings

Becoming Soil Drawings 1-3

Paper, graphite.

The Becoming Soil Drawings were produced by Sharples in response to Rosalie Bak’s haptonomic workshop of the same name, part of Sharples’s curatorial project NECROLOGY. Following a haptonomic methodology, the drawings appeared through a process of somatic, intuitive mark-making as a meditation on death as a generative, fertile, process. Engaging with human and trans-species materialities of soil, grief, and decomposition, they unearth speculative architectures of de- and re-composition, recording transient movements and signs of microbial happenings. Rather than representing specific forms and static objects, the Becoming Soil Drawings operate as temporal residues and affective cartographies. They contribute to Sharples’s curatorial and artistic investigation of ecological grief and material afterlives within the milieu of New Materialism.

Outcome of NECROLOGY: Becoming Soil workshop at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth.
Exhibited at GLOAM X free house at Grand Union's Junction Works as part of Digbeth First Friday, Birmingham.