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Misery
and
The
Way Out
Misery and The Way Out presents a contemplative reflection on heritage, class and material value in post-industrial society. The work constitutes a stratified structure of recycled steel soured from the North of England, onto which archival and personal prints interrogate the metal’s shifted material worth, are chemically adhered. An employment of both contemporary digital and traditional print methods, posing a link between craftmanship and mass production. Through an exploration of contemporary artisanship while also confronting the notion of obsolescence, the work seeks to practise the teachings of William Morris within modern forms of infrastructure. In this sense, the work is a fusion of method and material, deciphering how value is assigned, lost and reclaimed – eliciting a renewed perspective on mechanical forms of reproduction.