Zero Ground is an ongoing body of work shaped by questions of attention and care in an age of permacrisis.

Working in oil paint at a small, hand held scale, the project imagines beginning again not biologically, but perceptually. Each painting measures 2 × 3 inches. Individually modest, the works accumulate into larger fields where attention shifts between the fragment and the whole.

Rather than depicting recognisable forms, the work unfolds through fragments and repetition, allowing things to register gradually rather than declare themselves all at once. Distance gives way to proximity. What first appears as pattern begins to read as encounter.

What emerges is not a narrative of loss, but a quiet reorganisation. An emotional ecology shaped by memory, instinct, restraint, and repetition. Life here is not described or represented. It is approached through labour and sustained attention.

Zero Ground does not offer solutions. It leaves room for attention to return.