Playing with shadows (Lichen)

Following on from my last experiment with shadows and fictitious wire maps, I decided to make a map from lichen – this time in the shape of the Braan path and the Hermitage at Dunkeld, where I gathered all the windfall lichen a few months back.

When the map was complete, I hung it from the ceiling in my studio and tried a few different types of lighting on it.

Above and below : Soft lighting using an anglepoise lamp 

Using the torch on the iPhone

Beautifully dark lacy shadows, but jagged and a bit sinister too

Huge shadows which swamp the wall…would make a very dramatic installation if I had the right space for it

These shadows are very powerful, although they don’t have the 3-Dimensional effect that the wire shadows have.  I will also have a go at videoing the map rotating, as it would be interesting to see how the shadows work with movement.

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Water of Ruchil

                                Solitary stravaiger

Stepping back in time

Helpless and uprooted

Thirstily searching for Life

Charred discarded memories

Hide in empty vessels

Bottled up Emotions

Weeping with nostalgia

Open eyes observing

Mossy melancholy

Dark decaying circles

Rings of life, and death

Bearded branches bearing

Overhanging islands

Wizened witches fingers

Slowly shedding skin

The ancient paths where legions trod

Adorned with hostile emblems

Non-native invaders thriving

Surviving futile floods

Dryadic burrs lie twisted

By shallow shifting sands

Relics of rotten remains

Receive a new awakening

Gushing rapids foaming

to the Wild Boar’s Pool

Constant flowing waters

Reflecting on times past

Sunbeams over Nemeton

Pierce the Veil of Sleep

Sinister skeletal symbols

Monuments to life

Warped wefts of wisdom

Frame palimpsestic paths

Sacred standing stones

Cover ritualistic remains

Barbaric battlefields beckon

Shackled and forbidden

For those who draw the short straw

Mortality confirmed