Ascendant 2009
"We are history. Everything we've been on the way to becoming us... I'm made up of the memories of my parents, my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, the colour of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met whose changed the way I think, so, who is me?"
Terry Pratchett
What we leave behind is an image of our time.
Ascendant is a comparative study of the marks upon the landscape both pre and post industrial. The Holloway and a recent dual carriageway cutting. Ancient coppiced woodland and managed pine crops.. The round barrow and woodland burial ground.
If the ancient landscape gives us past insight then can current marks give us a vision of the future. How will we be viewed by our ancestors? Complimented by portraits of individuals both in touch with and effecting their environment, and by placing these two past present images alongside one another and presenting them in a manner that symbolises age perhaps that sense of "time-shifting" will allow the viewer to contemplate humanities place in current time and our behaviour as a powerful potentially self destructive whole.
