humus [latin] earth, ground, soil

humanus [latin] of the earth, human

humus is an ongoing body of research into the longstanding role of clay in global death practices, and how this can be reclaimed by contemporary and western rituals; in particular the potential for an expanded practice of clay to form a new, ecologically regenerative end of life pathway. There is a cultural yearning for a return to the old ways. An understanding of death in life, leading to a process that can be greeted as passage, ritual, process and truly wholistic approach to death; honouring the life that has passed whilst symbiotically creating opportunity for communal grief an

My interest in this subject has woven like a thread through much of my making over the past three years. Through material capture, manipulation and processing seeing to understand and experiment with new ways to memorialise and diarise through the act of making.