LOWRI HECKLER
IS HERE

FIGURING STUFF OUT
2024


I start every day with

two empty hands

Bioplastic hand cast and carved Silver Maple leaves

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cast from leaf samples found in Glasgow Green Sept-Nov

Cast from leaf samples of the Beebe Silver Maple found in Hilly Fields Park, South East London


These are common in London but rare in Glasgow

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Sssss' on their surface
Thinking bout the magic trick,
finding signals,
letters,
a call out for human connection

3 examples of leaf combing:

A - seen on the lhs of the
Sycamore leaf

I - seen on the rhs of the Birch
leaf

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V - found on the top of the Oak
leaf

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BLOSSOM

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PROJECT

BIOPLASTIC

Next step is to re-mould these leaves and re-cast them. I have made 52 leaves for 52 playing cards. A deck of Silver Maple playing cards.

The magic tricks continue

Hand sculpted Lugworms
Bioplastic mixed with sand from Llansteffan beach, my home

WINDSOCK & ON

Displayed at ZEPHYR, a wind show held on the shores of Dungeness

Video stills of my triple windsock displayed at ZEPHYR, an event of sculpture that spanned the skies of Dungeness during a windstorm

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PAINTING

'The Biker of the Apocalypse in Emerald Green'

oil on canvas, 2021

'Gift Wrapped Nighthawk'

oil on canvas, 2022

LOVE FRAMES
Whittled frames, images

There was a broken piano down my street so I carved its pine keys into Welsh love spoons. A year later I re-carved the spoons and turned them into frames

Exhibited at Bards of Avalon, Avalon Cafe, 2022

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2023

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Neanderthal Ed Sheeran WIP


I've been thinking about new ways to conceptualise time beyond traditional markers like the Bible, cave paintings, carbon dating, or fossils—forms of documentation that record and measure human existence. This led me to reflect on the landscape of the internet, where I began to think about YouTube or Spotify streams as unique units of time. Each stream equaling one unit of time.


If we consider the total number of streams for Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You'—now the second most streamed song in existence—as individual units of linear time, each stream adding up one by one, we find that collectively, we've listened to the song for over 32,000 years. To put that into perspective, 32,000 years ago, the Earth was still in the Ice Age, and Neanderthals roamed the land. Inspired by this scale, I am designing a 32,000-year-old Neanderthal version of Ed Sheeran. My goal is to 3D print him and bring him to life through animation. This is the character so far...