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The Encroaching Sea
(2019)
Shown at Generator Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
music by Give Avalanches
soundinstallation and maquettes made of paper and wood
A soundinstallation based on Doggerland; a land bridge that existed between Britain and continental Europe from about 12,000 BC to 6500 BC. Once the ice from the latest glacial period started to melt Doggerland began to sink into the sea, due to the rising sea levels. It was eventually completely under water by around 6500 BC when a mega tsunami called The Storegga slide hit Britain.
The text piece is a recording of a poem with music contribution from Give Avalances divided into four sections. These brings together fragments of facts and meticulous investigations and combines them with scientific hypothesises and my own thoughts and fabrications and builds narrative based on how human evolution, civilisations and migrations have been formed by water.
The piece is presented as an abstract collage where maquettes made from images and paintings, illustrate the audio as you walk through the space and peer in on these micro worlds. It is an attempt to take these huge events and long spans of time and make them contained and fragile, small enough to fit inside the palm of your hand
