Annihilation Seal, 2019. ArcadeCampfa, Cardiff. Photos: Michal Iwanowski

Annihilation Seal explored the aesthetics of power in visual forms of national identity, playing with ideas for a cross-national rebranding exercise for nuclear super powers. Drawings and objects explode the geometric and decorative components of national seals and emblems, such as wings, claws, horns, beaks and crops. The wing form features heavily – a symbol with multiple readings – flight, strength, weakness, escape.

Playing with the decorative potential of low-value and delicate papery materials, the works include office carbon paper drawings, an Excel spreadsheet print and a large-scale paper weaving.