EVERYTHING WE HAVE DONE IS WEATHER NOW 

This series of photographs explores changing human relationships with weather, particularly how it is registered and measured, and how these measures shape our understanding of the world. Weaving together photographs of historical handwritten weather observation ledgers with photographs of contemporary skies, the work looks at weather as an entity in which human activities are deeply implicated. What we do is weather; what we are is weather. The ledgers reveal a practice of methodical data collection, which would have involved a committed and involved relationship with deeply local weather, as well as the irresistible human tendency to note things like unusually beautiful weather phenomena and the behaviours of animals. At the same time the ledgers represent a belief in deeply empirical relationships with the natural world.

Taken at the same time of year as the observation records, but approximately a hundred years later, the contemporary skies are another form of watching the weather. In this layer, the photographs look to the sky, and the atmosphere as another kind of record. Together these layered images look to weather as a cumulative material archive that reflects the ongoing actions of humans.