A new collaborative project that explores the relationship between archaeology, mythology, and iconography through objects that evoke the appearance of discovered relics. Working with coal-like carved surfaces and detailed silver markings, the artists have constructed works that suggest traces of forgotten cultures, symbolic systems, and imagined histories.

 

Their compositions draw on a wide range of visual references including ancient navigational charts, inscriptions, celestial maps and symbolic forms, appearing as fragments of a larger unknown narrative. Traditions from across art history arc both subtly and overtly present, spanning the modern, the metaphysical, the religious. and threads of folk culture.

 

Rather than presenting objects with fixed meanings, the works remain open to interpretation, inviting viewers to engage in their own acts of discovery, bringing their own

histories and personal experiences to the encounter.

Pound and Mortimer have created a body of work in which they hope viewers may find themselves constructing a personal dialogue through the ritual of exploring the space between artefact and myth.

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