Mud Immaculate is a photographic still life project that reframes ditches and wetlands as sources of quiet vitality. These still life arrangements are made of items- flora, fauna, water, mud, human detritus- collected from roadside drainage ditches and polluted wetlands. The assemblages sit against backdrops of "ditch-dyed" textiles- the cloths were left in the wet earth from whence the objects came, then retrieved after several weeks. The images are matted with the ditch-dyed fabric. Investigation of these boundary-places can urge 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 this wreckage?
