Art in Fred martin: CEANGAL=CONNECTION, Gairloch, Scotland, september 2012

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CEANGAL=CONNECTION, Gairloch, Scotland, september 2012

International art residency CEANGAL
Gairloch, Scotland

September 2012

Je est un autre/ Is is another

Rua Reidh, Scotland

20 sept 2012

DRAWINGS

Sans titre

Tourbe et acrylique sur papier

Peat and acrylic paint on paper

120x35 cm

L'homme de Tollund/ Tollund man

Fusain sur papier/ Charcoal on paper

65x50cm

Peat stack

Tourbe et acrylique sur papier

Peat and acrylic paint on paper
65x50cm

SCULPTURES AND PERFORMANCES

Double face

Tourbe sur toile/ Peat on cloth

60x45 m

Peat baptisms on site

Sand body print

Gairloch beach

23 sept 2012

THE NAVEL OF RUA REIDH

Art in situ

  As I came across Rua Reidh, I realized that was the kind of landscape I was looking for.

Since we arrived, we have been taken to various places each more beautiful than the other, maybe too beautiful for me to accept adding something artistic to it.  I wanted to feel the nature in its rougher aspect, where I could feel alive.  Open space, landscape with no one where I could feel the strongest wind, get soaked by rain in a few seconds and most importantly, where I could work with land.

And there it is all peat, a soft and black texture in which I could dig, model and penetrate.

 Important also because this material is still part of the living of people here, the fact you can smell it on evening when the fire goes on in homes, that still people go and dig it, and more.  

My first idea was to dig in the peat till I reached a stone in order to reveal it… 

but something magic happened, I did not reach any stone, but a spring in which my foot fell into. 

So there it was. I had to use this water coming from within the earth...

and landscape and body became one.