An installation of work in and around Treveal Farm
and along the coast-path to Zennor, linked to the seminar...

Julie Rossiter

Integral Encounters

For Encounters Julie Kim Rossiter has studied an of area of AndalucÆa totally reliant on water from Lake Negratin, drying up so quickly that the watermarks can be seen striped along the surrounding rock formations like charcoal marks on paper.
Reclamation, restoration and conservation of damaged eco systems must be our social responsibility before it is too late. Nature and our individual, yet integral, encounters with our environment are entropic. In Integral Encounters I have tried to use this connectedness to evidence even the tiniest of detail and endeavour to show within the film the bigger picture- that of complex, diverse and changing environments.

Nature should not become Nostalgia, and our fragile Cornish eco systems should not be forgotten.

Jain McKay

The mermaid of Zennor

Jain McKay’s work combines autobiographical themes with illustrative techniques. For Encounters she explores the story of the Mermaid of Zennor through a series of magical interventions in the landscape.
Pieces of the story are revealed for the viewer to discover along the coastal path where the legend is based. The full story is told in a series of drawings at Treveal farm.
In this work McKay is exploring how myth and legend enhance people’s lives, the inner yearning we all have for there to be more than is visible, a need for magic. Maybe this is why tourists are drawn to Cornwall?

Ken Barrett

Story

This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood. ('This is the first thing' by Phillip Larkin)

Affirmations

I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus
But to keep my eye only on the nearer future
And after that let the sea flow over us. (From 'Wolves' by Louis MacNeice)

Karen Howse

Making the Bed
Visiting the farm in July mizzle, Jon Brookes (National Trust countryside manager) spoke of the reintroduction of cattle grazing on the cliff top. The cattle graze the bracken exposing the soil to light, bringing wildflowers and biodiversity to the coastal cliffs. However the proposed grazing has polarised those who use the coast for recreation.
I notice silver Penwith gates propped in the yard, spot the black filigree cattle paths through the bracken and imagine wildflowers covering cliff tops, a transformation from a blanket of green to a rich landscape of colour.