Cragg, from the series Lithics, 2025.
Diptych:
Panel 1 - Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, Machine Generated Analysis
Panel 2 - Stacked transparent Plexiglass layers
White wooden frame
Each 45 x 35 cm
The left panel of each work in the Lithics series has been analysed by machine to generate a ‘post anthropic forensic analysis’ which is shown in a separate panel as above.
The layers of the right hand panel here include archival material and data related to the first panel which shows the remains of a Cragg quarry in Rossendale. Now disused, the quarry has been repurposed as a mountain bike trails centre.
The layers include images of workers in the quarry in the 19th century (below), a memoir describing the great ‘Cowpe Flood’ of 1838 which destroyed homes throughout the valley below.
