S.O.S (Soul of Soil) examines the relationship between humans, objects and nature by exploring the social fabric of time and space; how time and space describes and defines the dynamic between these things within the context of ecology. 

For the purpose of this task, I am presenting the finished work as it is now but would like to further explore the development of the work if travel to Latin America can be supported. The current, completed series, is 20 photographs, black and white, framed, and presented in a grid. The photographs (selected three photographs are referenced in this application) are documentation of a colonial building in Angola. The photographs depict a site in its entirety drawing attention to the environment quite broadly: building, traces of people, animals and the landscape (foliage, plants). 

The grid presents a combination of framed photographs and boxed photographs. In the boxes, the photographs are obscured using textiles that form objects that were collected/referenced from that site. The cloth (rag-like) will act similar to a curtain. This construction treats the photographs in the box as missing objects. 

The site referenced across the series is a historical site in a small village called Massangano, in Angola. Few people live in Massangano but some of these inhabitants feature across the series. This site was originally where the Portugueses colonial settlers built their first fortress, church and port, by the river Kwanza.