'Before Land Became Landscape' - Funded by Arts Council England
Practical research conducted within the tidal space. Processes question notions of ownership, place attachment and inherited skill sets; whilst examining the dichotomies between work and play and the potential for interchangeability
Choosing to pack minimal equipment, utilising material encountered within the landscape. Working intuitively in collaboration with the elements.
12/23 - 06/24
The projects title 'Before Land Became Landscape' derives from the title of a poem by Michael Thorp (1961-2008) painter and collage artist, poet and publisher.
'Before land became landscape you'd spilt the shore:
your distance itself is the view.
Here space more than place is the law, and distance no object to you.
Small movements in nature are passing for speech, the tone just a tilt of a wing, out of reach'.
Published by Desert Garden Samizdat - Prayer Poems 2007
Copyright the estate of Michael Thorp