Spent a wonderful morning on the 22nd with Anna Keightley discussing her work and passion for the mosslands of greater Manchester.
I am extremely grateful for her continued patience with my constant questions and limited understanding.
Key things that we discussed with a view to finding common ground for a creative response:
Invisible elements; exchanges; below the surface; chemical signatures;measurements;UV; colour; indicators of climate change; patience; recording the small changes.
The passing of time allow experiences to overlap, layers of the landscape build to suspend layers of memory and history. Sedimental layers preserved in time, captured and held in place suspended in the land unseen, waiting for us to reimagine and reveal.
It is my intention over the coming year to observe this living, dynamic landscape revealing how it is shaped, experienced, valued and imagined.
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Over the coming weeks I will be revisiting Little Woolden Moss, reacquainting myself with this old friend.
When we walk within a landscape, move around it, feel it, listen to it, we begin to translate and decode the markers of Haecceity. First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266–1308), a haecceity is a non-qualitative property responsible for individuation and identity. That property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as ‘this (one)’.
