The Boggy Gassy Drawing (in progress) is an intensely laborious process work. Using a Rotring pen, hundreds of thousands of datapoints are written in ink, accumulating across the surface of a 161 x 106 cm piece of paper. The drawing archives datasets of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels gathered from chambers across 32 treatment plots (20m x 20m each), installed from 2023–2024 on the ‘cinderella’ degraded peatland in the Cambrian Mountains, West Wales.
The drawing, its materiality, and its making become a medium and method for attuning to the deep time of ecosystems, placing time not only at the centre, but as a material in itself. The work visibilises the tension between the immense scale of “big data” and the slow, granular nature of the peat.
In the Assembly Room…Spring 2026
In the studio… Winter 2026
All photos by Ash Calvert 2026