A Fog That Won't Burn Away

A fog that won’t burn away is a mobile comprised of suspended paper forms imprinted with speculative camouflage patterns. Risoprint textures blend like shadows tangling across their surfaces, flitting between certain clarity and apparent obscurity. It dissolves and reforms in a revolving dance, responding to currents of air with delicate movements, moving like tiny moth wings or weather vanes.

The work is a bittersweet investigation of instability, moving through that unknowable space, diffusing predictability, to create new meanings. A soft ache of unknowing, where fleeting certainties hum against the fog. In here, patiently blinking and squinting are tools to sift clarity from haze. Softening my gaze allows noise to transition into form. All this straining to see a clear path through the fog hurts my brain. Uncertainty’s indelible wash colours everything I see, setting me in motion. Precision resolving and dissolving in thin air.

My sculptural work points towards our interconnectedness with our surroundings and the vulnerability hanging in the balance of our shared ecosystems. Often I feel ineffective and powerless to make change.

- B Mosher