From the yearly archives:

2010

quarz path

Nearing the top of Carn Treliwyd I found these lines of quartz. Ancient routes through the rocks that shape our landscape.

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How we use and experience a landscape is of constant interest to me.  One of the ways that shapes our experiences is the routes we take. paths are like common routes of experience, a way taken by all, sometimes for thousands of years. paths guide us through the landscape to where we need or want to go. Paths are both mystical and reassuring, knowing that others have passed this way but not knowing what you will find on route is what I find so intriguing.

The line a path draws in the landscape has started to come into my work. Simple lines representing a path, across the surface of a jar. A reminder of the journeys I and others before me have made.

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Jackie Morris, illustrator and author followed the path up to the Jar on the hill and this is what she experienced.

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Blue bells

at top

My second attempt at this project after the previous Jar was taken from the top of Clegyr Boia. A new more remote location this time on top of Carn Treliwyd.

I have made a Jar from a blend of local clays, some from the moor below at Waun Llodi. This raw, unfired jar is to be left at the top of Carn Treliwyd to weather away. Made from the earth it will return to the earth. In my work I am inspired by landscape and I have placed this Jar to venerate its surrounding.

Over the next few weeks I will be documenting the disintegration of the Jar as the wind and rain slowly return the form to clay.

I will be posting things of interest and inspiration as I go.

To view the  chronological weathering of the Jar click here

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