Beyond Memory
Filmed in Winter around Black Lake on Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England, this video explores perception and acts as a metaphor for memory. Our eye moves from the sharp images of nearby dried grasses across the sheet of ice to layers of grey shapes of trees which disappear into the mist. We seek in the void for traces of familiar shapes, these slip from view leaving an afterimage thus laying down a new memory.
This ancient heath provides homes for mammals, birds, insects, and plants providing sustenance for people living on the margins of society. The peat bog traps and preserves traces of those people, animals, and plants that have lived and died here: thus the landscape itself is an archive.
A prehistoric man known as Lindow Man was found during digging in 1984: his body is now in the British Museum. He had been ritually slaughtered, the acidic peat preserving not only his body, his fox fur armband, but also the evidence of his last meal: wheat and barley which was burnt – unleavened bread.
This ancient heath provides homes for mammals, birds, insects, and plants providing sustenance for people living on the margins of society. The peat bog traps and preserves traces of those people, animals, and plants that have lived and died here: thus the landscape itself is an archive.
A prehistoric man known as Lindow Man was found during digging in 1984: his body is now in the British Museum. He had been ritually slaughtered, the acidic peat preserving not only his body, his fox fur armband, but also the evidence of his last meal: wheat and barley which was burnt – unleavened bread.
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