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DYCP PROJECT
2022-23
In 2022 I was awarded an Arts Council England 'Developing Your Practice Grant' for a period of research and development.
Below is a selection of screenshots, quotes, thoughts and processes that I collected during that time...
“Silt is created when rock is eroded, or worn away, by water and ice. As flowing water transports tiny rock fragments, they scrape against the sides and bottoms of stream beds, chipping away more rock. The particles grind against each other, becoming smaller and smaller until they are silt-size.
Silt can change landscapes. For example, silt settles in still water. So, deposits of silt slowly fill in places like wetlands, lakes, and harbors. Floods deposit silt along river banks and on flood plains. Deltas develop where rivers deposit silt as they empty into another body of water.”
National Geographic
“Writing calcifies thought that should be adaptive, oral, relational and always shifting. When you write something down it becomes brittle it stops changing and adapting”
Sophie Strand
“The underland’s difficulty of access has long made it a means of symbolizing what cannot openly be said or seen: loss, grief, the mind’s obscured depths, and what Elaine Scarry calls the ‘deep subterranean fact’ of physical pain.”
Robert Macfarlane
“I could smell the earth, poke around the soil, breathe the air and know that the cave air had circulated through my body and become a part of me”
Mary Beth Edelson
“We are atmospheric beings, not just contained in flesh, we are spread out and participants in an ecosystem of feeling. Feelings are more than just human products, they are atmospheric, geological, doing other things than just being felt, they elicit people in their territoriality”
Bayo Akomolafe
“Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the willed rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is bodily labour that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals”
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
“The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we’re just passing through”
Roger Deakin
“We are bodies of water, always just a tear/toilet break/cut away from leaking”
Veda Austin
“There is a place in the soul that neither time nor space nor creative thing can touch. A place in you where you have never been wounded, where there is still a sureness, confidence and tranquility within you. I think the intention of spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner sanctuary”
John O’Donohue