Title: Slow Orbit (2025)    

Media: 4k video, colour, silent, Real-time satellite tracking

In a non-disclosed location in North-West England, six Tuatara reptiles resurface from their brumation. Outside of Australasia, these six are the only living species of Rhynchocephalia reptiles in the world. The first recording of these reptiles dates back to the Middle Triassic era - around 240 million years ago, pre-dating dinosaurs. They are often referred to as the oldest living fossil.

In contrast to this is a real-time tracking of Telstar satellite. The first communications satellite that has been defunct since 1962. Travelling at approximately 14,000 miles per hour, it has circled Earth for over six decades. An early example of what we now call ‘space junk’.

Presented in proximity to one another - the two screens invite us to consider the themes of deep time, the organic and the artificial and endurance and obsolescence.