The Year The Fireweed Came and Went

This work was made during the Global Pandemic in 2020 when I chose to lockdown in the Scottish Borders, the place where I grew up. Although a regular visitor to the region to see family and friends since I left in 1998, I had ceased thinking about much of my time growing up there and the landscape of my childhood had grown unfamiliar to me. When Covid hit I had to make a choice as to where I would sit it out, the city I had made my home, or the landscape of my past where my new partner lived. Bringing together the images I took on my walks and the words I recorded in my journal, on Instagram and in voice notes, this work is a meditation on the landscape of my childhood, the hiatus in life brought about by a global pandemic and a fork in the road with a decision to make about where my life was to go next.