Rattle the Teapot is a series that grew from thoughts about the environmental changes and species loss I have witnessed during my lifetime. There is a nod to nostalgia in this series, but the comfort this sentiment could offer is denied, and replaced with solastaglia.*

The title Rattle the Teapot is meant to serve as a call toward change and an end to our colonial worldview. The title suggests an interruption, a noisy clatter to wake us up and invites conscious, responsible awareness of our relationship to nature. Old dolls, printed botanical fabrics and fake eggs represent my youth and familial history, but points to the many layers in which nature and ourselves have been replaced or mirrored through our constructed realities and technologies. The distinction between the real, the non-real, and representation have broken down, yet what of the Earth and the living systems that all life depends on? 

These hand-coloured photographs refer to historical Nature Morte and Vanitas paintings

*unease and melancholy caused by the destruction of the natural environment; eco-anxiety.

Blend of "solace" and "nostalgia" Example: It has led to the coining of a new word, solastalgia: the distress induced by environmental change and the degradation of one’s home place. Collinsdictionary.com