‘Plant names assume the status of chants or litanies. Spectral taxa incanted as elegy, or as a means to conjure back.’

Robert Macfarlane (The Guardian)

Relics (2013)

Part of a series of collaborative works, entitled Memorious Earth, produced with Autumn Richardson in response to the landscape of the Furness Fells in south-western Cumbria, UK.

Soil cores from upland tarns reveal a rich sequence of environmental succession following the last glaciation. Each core is an archive - a book of pollen, revealing the ghost forests of the distant past.

‘There is a kind of language in the diminishing densities of pollen contained in soil core samples. It is clear that the landscape recorded our effect upon it, even if we did not have the means to document it ourselves. It could be said, therefore, that our first writing implement was the axe.’

Material from Memorious Earth has been exhibited internationally.

[Memorious Earth at Corbel Stone Press]