Described on her site as ‘a techno-romanticist, Jasmine reinterprets traditional craft materials and techniques working with new technologies to find innovative ways to respond to how climate science has changed the way nature is perceived and understood. Working with devices that magnify the natural world her work offers an expanded gaze into perception, making the void between existence and nature tangible. /
Blind Spot: Perspex with Steel Mirror – ‘Blind Spot maps the 20th century tipping point of awareness surrounding environmental concerns – the discovery of the Ozone Hole’ /
What the eyes do not see: Telescopes & hand blown glass – “At night when I look through my telescope I often wonder could there be another person with a telescope looking back at me?” /
Life Support Systems: Glass & Perspex – ‘Life Support Systems uses NASA’s space suit helmet glass to create a series of three atmospheric weather maps charting shifting weather conditions in the atmosphere over Antarctica that have global implications’ /
Cell Study: Glass – ‘Cell Study meditates on the aesthetics of the many levels of visibility within the microscopic’ /
Crumbling Ecology: Porcelain – ‘Crumbling Ecologyis a large ephemeral installation made from over 35,000 hand made porcelain geraniums’ /
Atmosphere: and your troubles, like bubbles will disappear: Glass – ‘discusses the alarming number of toxic gases ‘bubbling up’ in the Earth’s atmosphere. The work examines the fragility of the Earth’s atmosphere that in the current ecological climate appears constantly on the verge of collapse/