Dwell (onging series)

Dwell is an an ongoing series of works that take photogrammetric data scanned during dog walks and strolls through woodland and translates them into CNC-machined engravings. 

The process of scanning the physical world, translating it into digital coordinaates and back into physical space is necessarily a lossy one. 

We assume that these surveying tools are neutral, that a scanner captures something faithfully. But every tool has a position. Every system makes decisions about what survives and what doesn't.
Taking its name from a line of G-code that controls the CNC, Dwell is a still a record of these walks, machine-memory of sorts.