'The Work' (2026) Partitions, Chacapa, Candles, Florida Water, Palo Santo.
The Work (2026) explores the tension between vast colonial systems of mapping—through which land is surveyed, owned, and divided into public and private space—and the intimate, subjective mapping of inner psychological and embodied territories. While these inner spaces may appear resistant to definition, coherence, or ownership, they have nonetheless been extensively explored, mapped, categorised, and instrumentalised through scientific, spiritual, and economic frameworks. External regimes of measurement, extraction, and control are thus mirrored internally, revealing how the logics of colonialism and capitalism extend beyond land and labour into consciousness itself.
Positioned within the re-emergence of a second psychedelic revolution, the work critically examines the circulation of plant-based psychedelic medicines through contemporary capitalist frameworks. Wellness industries, retreat economies, and the commodification of altered states become sites where questions of authenticity, access, and cultural appropriation are repeatedly negotiated and destabilised.
Rather than celebrating transcendence or healing uncritically, 'The Work' foregrounds the frictions that arise when ancient, communal, and land-based knowledge systems are absorbed into globalised economies of self-optimisation and spiritual consumption. The project asks how inner exploration is shaped—and potentially constrained—by the same structures that have historically mapped, extracted, and monetised the external world.
