Digging
North Shore, Ardrossan October 2018
A site specific project exploring physical and imagined landscapes. Taking place upon the shoreline of the town I grew up in, the work explores notions of attaining a form of self-orientation using material upheaval as a mode of creating visual reference points upon the land. The process was documented and made in to a publication, that was later distributed in a crafted wooden box partially buried in the site of excavation.
I came to question the impact of the changing tide; masking and revealing structures or places - beacons or points of reference. Imagining these structures as tools for navigation, I chose to investigate notions of creating ephemeral channels to create an unfixed momentary sense of place and orientation.
The box was equipped with movable fasteners to contain the publications inside - opened and closed by each viewer. I am interested in the presentation of environmental work or intervention - exploring the importance of site by using the beach as an interactive exhibition space. In addition, this method of distributing documentation allowed me to interrogate the photographic condition of sculpture, and instigated an interrogation of my own perception of the landscape parallel with the perceptive actions of others - considering naturally occurring platforms of observation, as well as ones I construct and insert upon the land.