In 2018, Lucy graduated from Masters of Contemporary Art at VCA. Recently, Lucy creates painted wooden dioramas re-visioning cosmologies in light of new scientific knowledge, combining source materials hetero-chronically and drawing attention to the commonalities beneath perceptual bias.
Intangible heritages, transferal of knowledge, ritual structures, myth, theology, time, astrophysics and the adaptation of old stories to new knowledge, provide fertile territory for her exploration of “Ontological Storytelling”. Physics and Storytelling operate at the edge of the unknown, attempting to render reality tangible and create a foothold for the deeper exploration of reality.
Lucy is particularly interested in how Quantum Cosmology continues shifting the parameters of the western perception of reality, opening it to realities that are subjective, unstable, emergent and entangled. For her, it inspires the composting of old stories to grow new meanings and decolonizes space-time-thinking, given that non-western traditions can sometimes provide frameworks more appropriate for intuiting quantum reality and the ambiguity it proffers.
Being the mother of two young boys, Lucy is drawn to the importance of storytelling in shaping perception. Her son’s curiosity about black holes, multiverses and monsters, are a major inspiration for Lucy in her creation of speculative fictions. She hopes her dioramas contribute to probing inherited knowledge, provide dialogic exchange between the arts and sciences and create logical worlds that serve to contemplate our embedded-ness, interconnectedness and entanglement with nature, matter and one another.