'UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth' presents a series of beguiling and compelling prints by Sam Hodge, transforming discarded cardboard boxes into layered visual narratives.
Using hand-ground pigments derived from both natural and built environments, Hodge gives voice to material worlds often overlooked, revealing their hidden stories and histories. Each print on cotton paper captures the texture, wear, and silent memory of packaging that once held the weight of commerce, consumption and communication; her artworks combine materials that 'bookend' the built environment, with rock and peat that have taken millennia to form, and abandoned packaging made from processed trees.
In response to the London Festival of Architecture’s 2025 theme of Voices, this meditative and thoughtful exhibition invites reflection on the environmental and human imprints embedded in everyday waste. Through a quiet yet powerful dialogue between matter and meaning, 'UNFOLDING' asks us to listen differently—to surfaces, to silence, and to the Earth itself.
