MATO ENKI

This for me is not simply a way of working in terms of creating form, it is the confrontation and need to understand how these outside forces, such as social and material pressures effect our ability to be free. The elevation with which we give technology over our fundamental belief in our own instincts and ability to use our senses is something that fuels my ideas and practice, our submissiveness to technology... My most recent series of works explore ideas such as the distribution of goods via the world trade routes, some modern, some ancient. This came about after an investigation into these trade routes and the mega shipping containers that travel across the sea using buoyancy aids that light up these routes as a means of navigation. Consumerism via the sea is as old as civilisation itself and it's growth in recent times is another major factor in our dependency and submissiveness to material goods and technology, which links back again in my work to our detachment from our..