TY - ADVS

T1 - Wake ( Foolish Sands)

A2 - Casey, Sarah

PY - 2024/5/25

Y1 - 2024/5/25

N2 - Wake ( Foolish Sands) Is a development of research around responses emergence from glacial retreat – in this case the sediments and rock flour ground down by years of glacial action. This work asks how do we think about postglacial sites have been without ice for over 10,000 years, and might new ways of looking at these sites, now inhabited by humans, bring us closer to the changes taking place in high alpine glacial environments today.The outcome is an artwork which is a series of glass watch faces painted with rock flour gathered from post-glacial locations in Dumfries and Galloway. The work builds on earlier work Long Shadows Cast (2023) in which glacial flour (fine rock powder ground down by glacial action) was gathered and used to make images of glacial environments in Switzerland visited by the artist in summer 2023 through her residency at Musée d’Art du Valais. Placed on an OHP, shadows are cast on the wall. The viewer sees not the drawing but its trace, via the means of this nearly obsolete technology. The yellow glow from the electric bulb of lends the work a sepia glow, recalling early photographic images of high mountain areas at the end of the little ice age. This anachronism is reminder that while the images depict contemporary landscapes seen last year, these views are already an image of the past. The work shown here at Tidespace reflects on Dumfries and Galloway as a post-glacial environment. We are in a landscape drawn by ice that once covered this land. 11000 years later, its traces remain visible in our U-shaped valleys, erratics, lochs nestled in hollows carved by ice, debris of moraine and alluvial sediment that washes out into the Solway. These traces belie the sense of landscape as timeless as a human conceit, all is changing, and our presence here will pass in the sands of time.

AB - Wake ( Foolish Sands) Is a development of research around responses emergence from glacial retreat – in this case the sediments and rock flour ground down by years of glacial action. This work asks how do we think about postglacial sites have been without ice for over 10,000 years, and might new ways of looking at these sites, now inhabited by humans, bring us closer to the changes taking place in high alpine glacial environments today.The outcome is an artwork which is a series of glass watch faces painted with rock flour gathered from post-glacial locations in Dumfries and Galloway. The work builds on earlier work Long Shadows Cast (2023) in which glacial flour (fine rock powder ground down by glacial action) was gathered and used to make images of glacial environments in Switzerland visited by the artist in summer 2023 through her residency at Musée d’Art du Valais. Placed on an OHP, shadows are cast on the wall. The viewer sees not the drawing but its trace, via the means of this nearly obsolete technology. The yellow glow from the electric bulb of lends the work a sepia glow, recalling early photographic images of high mountain areas at the end of the little ice age. This anachronism is reminder that while the images depict contemporary landscapes seen last year, these views are already an image of the past. The work shown here at Tidespace reflects on Dumfries and Galloway as a post-glacial environment. We are in a landscape drawn by ice that once covered this land. 11000 years later, its traces remain visible in our U-shaped valleys, erratics, lochs nestled in hollows carved by ice, debris of moraine and alluvial sediment that washes out into the Solway. These traces belie the sense of landscape as timeless as a human conceit, all is changing, and our presence here will pass in the sands of time.

M3 - Artefact

PB - Tidespace

CY - Kirkcudbright

ER -