The Lake

Like the Neolithic/ Bronze processional landscape of Craddock moor, Siblyback lake on Bodmin Moor has become a focus of memories placed around a walked route.
Siblyback Lake was created in 1968 within a few 100 metres of the Neolithic -Bronze age altered landscape of Craddock moor, Southeast Cornwall. The lake is a flooded landscape. Three streams flow into the lake, and the leaves, blossom, and debris they carry congregate in a focused archive with the memories imprinted there: a combined record. A Dam controls the water output and holds back the memories. An inner and outer.
The Lake is a popular local spot and has many official and unofficial Benches, tied ribbons and flowers as memorials to people and pets. Memorial benches represent a continuation of altered landscape through the creation of material installations that transform an ordinary place into a significant extraordinary one. The lake path has become a focus of feelings for the people memorialised: The benches are a meta representation of life, death, and memory.
I walked the path around the lake in the early mornings most days for 4 months over the winter of 2021-22 during the Covid period.
Initially, I had the physical action of walking, time to think and a mobile phone to record images. An Archive developed of lines from poems and literature, concepts of perception and memory, landscape archaeological phenomenology, a botanical palaeontology and an extensive digital archive of personal and natural history images. I began placing the memory images in the locations where the thought occurred.
There is a link to a Google earth interactive map of the Lake.
There will be a series of films and soundtrack coming that including sections in Russian as part of a collaboration with Russian Artist Needle into a Bug.
I have included short animations and still images in The Lake collection and project pages. There is more information on the lake Blog/ words and wondering sections.
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