Zie Sowden

combining the art of the ‘breathing excercise’ alongside the planting of the handmade vertebrae in the film

‘plant my bones, watch them decompose.’

the fascination of the relationship between the spine and the landscape, equally as important a horizon to the structure of the earth. counting of the vertebrae in the physical form, and the subsequent sculpting of the vertebrae into the natural. the “polymorph vertebrae” were sculpted from the smart material polymorph, which has the ability to dissolve when submerged in soil, much like the decomposition of the body.

the polymorph vertebrae were then planted, as seen in stills from a project titled “body as landscape//landscape as body”, 2023.