Thus said the Land

THUS SAID THE LAND is a process based work that probes the power paradigms at play in any given place. Rather than focus on human activity, the land itself is called upon as 'witness', during a process that asserts agency where it is least suspected.

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During the first phase of the work, I carried out site specific performances, in which I set up a forensic square and then proceeded to take clay imprints from the ground within the square. These clay imprints became the record of the 'witness statements' given by the land. In a second step, again, as part of the site specific performative process, I took photographs to record the site in its context and the land inside the square in an eagle's eye view.

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The 'witness statements' and 'evidence' photographs were then collated in the form of a newsprint publication, to communicate the way in which seemingly inherent power structures are perpetuated by our discursive practices.

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The work was made on the South Coast of England during the politically divisive time just after the vote on Brexit.