Through Place And Mind
(2020)
Through Place And Mind responds to Holly Houlton’s relationship with the British countryside. The body of work consists of a number of different methodologies used to express Houlton’s emotional links with the landscape; such as the use of photography, ambient sound and spoken word.
Through the use of these processes, the work draws upon notions of the Romantic movement such as conveying feeling and self-expression as a result of being within landscape. In addition to this, the work intends to evoke a mindful and calming atmospheric experience. The techniques used create a newly imagined, timeless space. The work acts as a metaphor which corresponds to the articulation of how the landscapes are remembered and felt.
The work takes viewers on a sensory and immersive journey, enabling the audience to experience it in a meditative state as the artist perceived it. In doing this aspires to invoke reflection as to how rural landscape and nature can provide emotive contemplation through exploration of place. As a consequence of this, the work aims to encourage viewers to relate to their own relationship to land and place.
