Dark Flowing (2024) is a short film that responds to disused mines located in the Tamar Valley, a small area on the Devon/Cornwall border affected by residual pollution from the abandoned Arsenic and Copper mines, which are now UNESCO World Heritage sites.

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By using 16mm film processed with seaweed and water from the contaminated mine, I aim to bring awareness to the the invisible toxicity of the landscape in its many forms. This contamination is a result of arsenic leaching into the soil and river from disused processing plants. The film's vivid blue colour, which mimics oxidised copper, comes from inverting a scanned negative that was originally bright orange.

 

 

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The layered voiceovers, which are all my voice, combine personal reflection and readings from the text: The Metalliferous Mining Region of the South West of England.  Drawing on the tension between our technical, precise and scientific understanding of the landscape and the poetic, personal and emotional connections we have with it.