This live performance work was created whilst thinking through 18th C ideas of the sublime (Edmund Burke). Thoughts of transformative experience, scale, discomfort and awe prevailed. It also references Roland Hepburn’s ideas (1966) around the immersive appreciation of nature, walking in the landscape with the elements as a non-cognitive experience that emphasises sensory engagement.
To make this work I walked three lengths of silk up on to the top of a mountain in southern Wales. I found an old tree branch and used this to connect the threads as I walked, trailing the silk in the wind behind me.
As I walked it became apparent how little control I had over this process. The material, the wind and the landscape taking over, creating shapes, lines, routes across the landscape as I twisted and turned to navigate myself around these emerging patterns.
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