In an age of acceleration and artifice, my work seeks not a return to nature but an encounter with its fractured double — landscapes remembered, refracted, and recalibrated through memory and loss. The sublime no longer resides in grandeur, but in slowness, attrition, and the delicate dissolution of certainty.

Working across printmaking, mark-making, photography, and installation, I engage in gradual processes of fading and transformation. Imperfect tools and fugitive materials are central to my practice, favoring gestures and surfaces that resist permanence. Breath-led drawings, ink absorbed into saltwater, and slow accumulations form a living archive of becoming and disappearance.

Against the backdrop of synthetic time and performative authenticity, I pursue a quiet resistance. Memory, for me, is sediment; identity, weathered ground. My work offers no narrative — only mythologies of fracture and recalibration. Figures are implied, landscapes absent, inviting viewers into a meditation on impermanence and longing.

Through ritual, distortion, and quiet myth-making, I seek to build a body of work that stands lightly but endures — lasting forever, and then, simply, is over.

Stephen Wadcock