Dùthchas, 2025-26
245cm x 230cm
Wool, silk thread, hemp, hessian scrim, muslin, stones, shells, terracotta, found car cog, spirulina, iron oxide, peat, leaf stems.
Installation view from 'Edgelands', 2026. The Gaelic word Dùthchas embodies an acute sense of place that goes beyond simple ownership or residence, where people belong to the land rather than the land to the people. I expanded the temporality of satellite images of traversed coastlines on the Isle of Lewis.