By working with particulate matter and fluidity in this project—specifically carbon and water— continual emergent events are experienced through material change and the suspension of material. At the time of making, there is a hiatus or moment of uncertainty that is experienced as this suspended moment.

By conceptually mapping this experience onto particles floating in a medium – matter is left hanging, unable to find stable ground as led by the quality of darkness and intensity of affect. By lingering in this indeterminate material state – this time and change, reflects the transient world. This is the experiential, conceptual, and material state of suspension— the floating, transferring, and binding of saturated material. Jill McIntosh, Transitional Acts: Suspension and Materiality in the Event, Ngūtū Kaka Gallery, Auckland, 2023.