By considering the unexpected parallels between Bicycle Motor Cross (BMX) and sustainable building practices and eco-development the artist attempts to read the built environment as an index of deeper cultural, behavioural and ideological trends. Primarily drawing on the artist’s involvement in these activities as an autobiographical starting point, The Trail Garden aims to deconstruct assumptions of athletic culture by reimagining and experimenting with materials as a type of bricolage archeology.
Images courtesy Yiorgo Yiannopoulos.