Created as part of a collaborative research project with Critical Edge Collective, this project included a research archive and a set of prints that experimented with printing techniques and copper patination.

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Inspired by the 1972 novel ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino, I fed passages from Calvino's book through an A.I. image generator and printed the resulting images onto copper coated in a solution that accelerates the oxidation of the metal. Through this layered approach, the images become obscured and veiled by the patina of the copper, suggesting the fallibility of memory and the archive in the age of post-internet atemporality. Interested in Calvino's post-modern, imaginary travelogue as an atemporal critique of capitalism, modernism and the rapid urbanisation of the author’s coeval world, I explored the parallels within my own practice where folk traditions, science-fiction and working-class archives regularly become vectors for a discussion about class histories and futures; who is remembered and who is forgotten?