245cm x 230cm
Wool, silk thread, hemp, hessian scrim, muslin, stones, shells, terracotta, spirulina, iron oxide, peat, leaf stems.
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. When previously sensed sites are revisited in the digital realm, reality is compressed into an atemporal dimension. Nothing lives there. Dùthchas is a durational weaving that expands the temporality of satellite images of traversed coastlines on the Isle of Lewis. The materials will deteriorate within the warp and weft over time, slowly unravelling under the weight of stones.
