Tender Ground

Tender Ground begins with nature and traces the figure within it. Gardens, steppes, deserts, the North Sea: spaces in which the human body appears, often male, often exposed, sometimes barely distinguishable from its surroundings. Nature here is neither background nor setting, but a condition in which identity, desire and perception become visible. The male figure stands at the centre, not as ideal, but as terrain. As Tender Ground: permeable, vulnerable, in flux.