Paul Croft : Landscape Location Sense of Place

Coast Upland Mountain Lowland Valley Plain

Sea Estuary Brook Stream River Falls Lake Loch

People History Culture Story Myth Legend Language

Recollections Reflections Remains

Traces Tracks Trails

Strata Layers

Advance

Retreat

As we ventured out on our first walk along the river bank in Corris, the writer Jill Teague encouraged us to write down random words to describe everything that we perceived and experienced in the moment. Heightening our sense and awareness of place, this helped us to capture not just what was seen, but what it was we felt, what it was we heard, and to record any memories from previous experience. 

enclosed 

dank and cold

running water runners through trees

light through tracery of branches

reflections on steel

raw sienna grass and reeds

stone etched graffiti

moss and fern 

hurrying water

windchill to the bone

blue grey flecked with white

firs reaching to the sky

rapid rapids

russet brown leaves 

sheltering from

Some of us sketched as well, we collected and documented. For me, landscape, objects found, fleeting views, perceived, seen, documented through memory, sketch, word and photography all become the resource, a depository or library of components, available for composition and reconstruction through drawn, etched and printed line, wash, tone and colour.

Through use of lithography plates, stones, blocks and stencils, the intention is thus to develop a thesaurus of deconstructed forms, like words from a dictionary available for selection, to be combined and recombined, synthesised in any number of different ways, like hot metal type in text, yet to produce a graphic exploration and representation of place.

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