Rise and Fall

Casey, Sarah (2024) Rise and Fall. [Performance]

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Abstract

Rise and Fall is the title of a new time based drawing event developed collaboration with Jessica Chaney director of Tidespace, a public art creative space for the exhibition STILL/WATERS/RUN/DEEP ( May 24– June 10 2024. The research asked how might processes of drawing designed to make visible change in glacial environments be adapted to revealing other types of environmental mobility in – in this case tidal movement, The outcome was Rise and Fall , a wax paper drawing that followed the tidal flow in Kirkcudbright harbour over 24 hours from 25-26 May. The work is a new development of the Amplifiers series of work begun in Switzerland during artist residency at the Musée d' Art du Valais in collaboration with Musées Cantonaux du Valais in 2023. The Amplifiers are a series of drawing events where fragile wax and paper drawings were exposed to the heat of the sun in high mountain areas where glacial archaeology is found. The drawings reveal what are often invisible environmental forces- heat, erosion, wind. These drawings, like the ice and archaeology, disintegrate if too hot and the remnants carry the marks of the environment. Rise and Fall, by contrast, takes place back home in Scotland, where the work has been reimagined for Kirkcudbright - a town on the river Dee an area which was itself once glaciated. Traces of this past can be seen in the drumlins lining the valley and the sediment washed out to the harbour. Here, Rise and Fall reveals the movement of the tides abound the fine rock sediment mud in the harbour. It is a marker of time and the changing landscape with the daily ebb and flow