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METEORITE
[PARK ROYAL]

Meteorite [Park Royal] is a project run by Pati Starzykowski, an artist and a community creative strategist based in and working from Park Royal. Working with rescued soil from Park Royal construction sites and rescued London clay from the HS2 dig, a group of participants from local communities and those adjacent to Park Royal took part in two workshops stretched over a month. Partakers were given a protocol and a set of instructions by the artist to engage in working with earth, clay, seeds etc. Materials which can return to where they emerged from. Sculptures function as a seed bomb where planted seeds of wild flowers can sprout from the structures or they can create a nice habitat for insects. Creating a large collective living sculpture and a number of smaller ones for a public space was not an easy undertaking, so process was collective.  By working with ecological principles we only worked with collected materials participants like meteorites were collecting the spatial debris and what's underneath us, bringing it together, shaping it and revive it  into seed pods of common pollinators, before moving on to building two larger living sculptures made from clay, soil and seeds. Participants described the sense of care and curiosity, but also a sense of deep time and value when working with rescued soil and London clay , a material that is 50 million years old. The second workshop was accompanied by Nikki, the geologist. She talked about the history and provenance of London clay, placing it in a geological timescale. The outcome of this project is a publicly displayed sculpture created as a site of impact at a site near North Acton station. Great thanks to Artification, OPDC, Mayor of London, Loom Projects, Re-made in Park Royal for the help, contribution and funding.



 
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