Canvas, anti-radiation fabric, aluminium foil, acrylic transparent varnish, synthetic rainbow organza

235 x 235 x 3 cm

The making of Mostly cloudy 4involves Mimosa Echard attaching a layer of anti-radiation fabric onto a stretched canvas, such that the chemical reaction between the two materials wears down the canvas to reveal an oxidised copper colour, filtered through a layer made of rainbow organza. Anti-radiation fabric possesses protective qualities and its most common forms of applied use are found in our phones and computers. Its use here however brings about distress, as the frame of acidic green seeps into the layers below. Yet, it is exactly the interactions that the fabric has with the other materials that generate new substances possibly circumventing the current perceptible limits of our technologically abundant world, stimulating our desire for surplus but never actually satiating it. In this way, Echard utilises such processes of mediation to seek out new ways to address the various intersecting issues brought about from people’s biological compulsions and the current technological landscape.