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Mynydd
Mynydd brings an intense form of scrutiny to a contemporary Welsh landscape and in doing so melds historical imagination with environmental urgency.
The work focuses on Mynydd Preselau in west Wales, a distinctive and ancient land that features Iron Age remnants along with rocky outcrops linked to Stonehenge. Here, King Arthur and his knights pursued the wild boar ‘Twrch Trwyth’ as described in the earliest Welsh prose of the Mabinogion.
Mynydd asks us to look again, in a new epoch, at a land under stress from contemporary farming practices and climate change as evidenced in its heathlands and lichen respectively.
In Nan Shepherd’s seminal book, The Living Mountain, she suggests, “…the truth [is] that our habitual vision of things is not necessarily right: it is only one of an infinite number, and to glimpse an unfamiliar one, even for a moment, unmakes us, but steadies us again”.
Mynydd brings an intense form of scrutiny to a contemporary Welsh landscape and in doing so melds historical imagination with environmental urgency.
The work focuses on Mynydd Preselau in west Wales, a distinctive and ancient land that features Iron Age remnants along with rocky outcrops linked to Stonehenge. Here, King Arthur and his knights pursued the wild boar ‘Twrch Trwyth’ as described in the earliest Welsh prose of the Mabinogion.
Mynydd asks us to look again, in a new epoch, at a land under stress from contemporary farming practices and climate change as evidenced in its heathlands and lichen respectively.
In Nan Shepherd’s seminal book, The Living Mountain, she suggests, “…the truth [is] that our habitual vision of things is not necessarily right: it is only one of an infinite number, and to glimpse an unfamiliar one, even for a moment, unmakes us, but steadies us again”.
