Transmission 2026This body of work explores invisible signals and flows of data— satellites, radio waves, radar, ciphers and coded systems—through an investigation into WWII coastal defence architecture.
Living on the North Norfolk coast, I am particularly interested in the region as both a historical first line of defence and a site of transmission, where land, sea, and sky converge as channels for signals. Coastal bunkers and defence structures, designed to observe and listen, once operated within wider communication networks, monitoring sea and sky for potential threat. Now weathered and partially eroded, they remain embedded in the landscape as physical traces of these unseen systems. Through this work, I explore technological “noise” within the landscape, combining plaster casting, hand carving, and laser etching on block forms. The casts capture traces of time and surface texture, suggesting interference, signal loss, and disruption. I am interested in how these systems continue to resonate: how signals extend beyond their point of origin, and how structures designed for surveillance persist as silent witnesses. Through plaster casting, I seek to capture both the visible and the unseen—the scars of human intervention and the lingering presence of spaces shaped by control and communication. |
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