The project titled "Liquid time, petrified objects" looks at the changes in the appearance of various substances and materials over time, and what role do humans play in this process. Anything can be petrified in the world we live, from bacteria to creatures. The process of petrification replaces organic matter with minerals over a long period of time, thus forming fossils, so that the original object will be replaced in the process.

Minerals can replace bone, shell, wood, and even soft body parts as they dissolve away due to the action of water and decay. Replacement and mineralization are terms used to describe this fossilization process. The age of a fossil was first determined in the nineteenth century by studying the changes in its composition, and each petrified object bears a trace of time. In the more recent years, it is possible to analyse the main chemical elements in petrified wood and the density of the object through electronic devices, and it is very interesting to read the biological, chemical, chronological and climatic information in the fossil through the data, thus showing that every object has the ability to record the passage of time.

For my project, I have collected three main types of material: stone, metal and plants. I gathered stones of different petrified degrees and categories, mainly along the banks of the Thames. After a long period of scouring by the river, the minerals in the river water will affect the petrified degree of the stone surface. I also gathered plant samples in urban parks, fine sand and mineral materials in the soil in order to make hand-made specimen models using epoxy resin. Finally, I collected samples of metal from public places. Following on from this, I have imagined new names and meanings for the materials which were inspired by food and human organs and I made labels. The labels represents the petrified objects as speciments inspired by food and human organs, and the purpose of this work that was presented as a sort of museum vitrine is to criticise the authoritative Western museum classification system.