Water into Fire (Meteorite)

The Deluge

Meteorite and The Deluge are made from the same set of images – every photograph from a roll of 35mm film, shot during a four-day wild camping expedition in the Glen Feshie area in Scotland in October 2023. The photographs were made on the first day, at a set of waterfalls in the woods near the beginning of our route. Torrential rain began on the second day of the trip, resulting in widespread flooding along the River Feshie and extending into nearby villages and towns. By the final day, streams that we had crossed easily on the way in were in full flood, and had to be traversed with extreme caution. 

The work is a response to the site itself, and to the way that the landscape is being transformed by extreme weather events. More broadly, it’s a meditation on the idea of the Anthropocene – a geological era that will only end with the disappearance of humanity. These two works, which transform a modest waterfall into a deluge and a meteorite strike, are the outcome of my dark eschatological thoughts about the form that this end might take.

Both 2023
Laser prints and archival adhesive tape
Approx. 100 x 50cm