My work is comprised of elements of sculpture, drawing, video, performance, and centres around ideas of the landscape and its relationship to the body. The landscape being the centre stage is used to draw narratives, creating bewitching environments with sound installations. Words are spoken but unheard or hidden and ceremonial performances to camera take place to immerse viewers in atmospheric experiences.
Boglands; An ominous place of death, decay, rebirth and regrowth, a landscape where layers of time are embedded. A portal for time travelling. A benevolent custodian of history, collecting and preserving.
The main character who is a seer or a wisewoman is awakened, she walked these lands in a different time, reflected, and mirrored in the making of this work by wandering the land and collaging the film together. The female figure was immersed, memorialised forever in another time, and now I am too. I am not aware, but the bog knows, the landscape knows its history, but I do not. She is there and part of the land. I am mirroring and repeating history by just living on it, and maybe one day I will be part of it. A cycle of growth and evolution.
Under the peat’s skin lies things beyond our threshold of perception. When we peel back the layers, we release things that were buried deep in the ground. Both our past and present are disturbed. What lies beneath the surface, under the skin, the skin of the bog?
