Erecting from the ground is an installation created during the Project SEEDS Art Residency (2023-24) at Oficinas do Convento in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. It is part of a larger set of artworks seeking to discuss issues of block or containment, permeability or dispersion, using materials collected around the artistic residency sites. Here, the use of earth as an aggregating material in juxtaposition to iron in the broken welds of a mesh, in an ephemeral attempt at repair.

This piece was selected for the Portuguese Emerging Art 2024 publication.