Mud Immaculate is a photographic still life project that reframes overlooked waterways, with a focus on drainage ditches, as places of quiet vitality. The arrangements are made of items- flora, fauna, water, mud, human detritus- collected from roadside ditches and polluted wetlands. The assemblages sit against backdrops of "ditch-dyed" textiles- the cloths were left in the sediment and water from whence the objects came, then retrieved after several weeks. The images are also matted with this ditch-dyed fabric. Investigation of these sidelined boundary-places urges us to look with a more nuanced eye at the environments we create, inhabit, and inherit. Mud Immaculate reveals the unexpected biodiversity and liminal elegance of such sites and poses the question: what can we salvage from our wreckage?
