History Beneath

The physicality of the destructive process that is applied to the work creates a layer to the images that obscures the modern management to then highlight the strip lynches. Strip lynches are a method of hill farming that dates back to Anglo-Saxon Britain, where land dug out of the hillside created multi-layered platforms allowing the growth and harvest of crops upon the steep hillsides. The notion of ‘palimpsest’ (a laying, rendering, erasing and re-laying process) applied to the rural landscape of the Yorkshire Dale highlights the presence of its medieval history that lies beneath it. Each exhibition image was printed, and sanded to create a unique and unpredictable out come with the surface of each image varying.