SITE-SENSITIVE
An ongoing land-based research taking place in the Black Mountains, Wales.
The following videos form part of an ongoing inquiry exploring encounters of bodily and emotional porosity with the land, waters, and mountains of my home environment.
Through an immersive layering of moving images and field recordings, the videos capture spontaneous movement rituals as practices of presence and reciprocity with my local landscapes.
Rooted in queer ecological thinking, I began to explore a practice of site-sensitivity as a way to shift away from predetermined ideas, and instead prioritise uncertainty, waiting, and hightened responsiveness to what might emerge moment by moment in the landscape.
Through this inquiry I have been exploring the following questions:
How might we arrive at places with care and sensitivity towards the more-than-human ecologies already present?
How might we perceive feelings of consent, or limits from a place?
And, what becomes possible when we approach a landscape as a living relation?
Alongside the following videos, a series of offerings accompanies each landscape, emerging as a gesture of care, reciprocity, and gratitude.
Claimed by rocks at the banks of the Upper Wye, and a creaturely offering made from driftwood and stone overlooks the water.
Bending, bowing to the wind.....a gathering of stones and skulls on the hilltop.
Mosses of ‘Cwm Byddog’ and an offering of branches at the foot of a Hawthorn tree.