The Accidental Finding of Treasure
An Audio Installation at Moray Art Centre.
Materials: Handmade sailing boat (facing due west towards Cromarty), aluminum scaffolding, rusted steel pool, Loch Maree water darkened with Black Isle peat and five speakers playing the sounds of rower’s breaths and hums.
Watched by the sky, a small handmade boat rocks in the loch, the high pitches of its sail touching cloud.
Momentarily the mists thin, and islands, darkened with trees, reveal the shapes of mountains without names, deeply mapped by wolves.
This audio installation is an evolving creation that uses objects and sounds to metaphysically and metaphorically represent the relationship between humans and the matter and substance of the natural world. The boat holds a reference to our own life journeys and the structure to that which underpins and elevates our perspective as well as our ecological connection to place.
The speakers are placed at the water level and play the recordings of the hums and breaths of a group of women rowers from Cromarty. The audios are spaced apart and set to go in and out of sync organically, echoing around the receptor to give a sense of a wide-open space.
Click to hear a hum hum 1
