Here's number four in the Big Tree short videos that have been produced by Beatrix Wood of TrixpixMedia. She persuaded me to describe some of the found objects I've been working on for over 40 years. They are storylines and totems in themselves, partly mine, partly the viewers. Colourful, non descriptive, ancestral messages held on a piece of wood, stone, bark, bone or clay. I don't know where this work comes from.
I've always had a fascination for indigenous art and so called primitive art. Through working in archaeology for many years I always wondered if there was more "art-ifacts" in everyday life in prehistory. This is just a response to it all - echo's from my primitive past.
My landscape is a network of places and I don't separate nature and culture or for that matter mind and body.. I spend a lot of time in the immediate area close to the workshop and home. Approaching it from different angles, directions getting my feeling for the sense of place day after day.
These objects I "make" are not seen in isolation from that landscape, they are not independent. It's my sensorial approach - my archaeology of the senses. Mine is not necessarily an ancient memory, it's more of a deeply accepted response to the aged land, recognising my historical ecology !!
There is some work on show here
A big thanks to Innes Watson for allowing me to use his music in all these short videos. You will discover more here
I've always had a fascination for indigenous art and so called primitive art. Through working in archaeology for many years I always wondered if there was more "art-ifacts" in everyday life in prehistory. This is just a response to it all - echo's from my primitive past.
My landscape is a network of places and I don't separate nature and culture or for that matter mind and body.. I spend a lot of time in the immediate area close to the workshop and home. Approaching it from different angles, directions getting my feeling for the sense of place day after day.
These objects I "make" are not seen in isolation from that landscape, they are not independent. It's my sensorial approach - my archaeology of the senses. Mine is not necessarily an ancient memory, it's more of a deeply accepted response to the aged land, recognising my historical ecology !!
There is some work on show here
A big thanks to Innes Watson for allowing me to use his music in all these short videos. You will discover more here
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