‘PILE OF STONES’ A diary of a walk through stone.
This work was inspired by a walk I led in the Lake District, a landscape where stone has such a prominence. We walked through tunnels leading into vast slate quarries and pathways snaking across the mountainous land that has felt so many feet before us.  I looked at the slate that forms this silvery landscape, its textures, colours, the sounds of the stone and the many ways the slate has been used within the landscape. I have observed the process of erosion, happening slowly by natural elements and being sped up by human activity such as quarrying. 

Moving image projection on stones, drawing of the line of the walk on the gallery floor and also throughout a handmade book/diary tracing our steps through stone. 
Exhibited in DRAW Show 2018 , The Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art.

geological time ~ human time ~ speed up ~ slow down
erosion ~ soft ~ hard ~ layers of strata ~ changing landscape
slate ~ sedimentary ~ metamorphic ~ hematite ~ silver ~ red ~ grey
tracks ~ trails ~ traces ~ micro ~ macro ~ borings ~ caverns ~ natural ~ man made
the walk ~ the journey ~ the edge ~ the trace ~ ephemeral and lasting