Outlandia is familiar to me, I revisit ariel photographs with digital drawings, excoriate the surface. I ask my children and friends when we visit Steall to make drawings to articulate the formation of the igneous rock. On small 30cm squares they create marks which later that day I expose on treated paper in the sunshine by the river.
I transcribe conversations with my childhood friends in Outlandia, and I draw them. Our lives, entwined, their voices enrich themes; identity, biodiversity, ecology, history, all of which expand knowledge. The ‘Glen’, environmental importance dialectically opposing the surface study often presented. I write a conversation between two trees. I recognise these words should reflect the native language; embodying place, embodying memory.
