During a residency with Gallery Oldham (2021) I worked with bryological (moss) specimens collected from the local area 150 years ago. This inspired a series of meandering walking workshops focused on revisiting and recollecting mosses from my local area. Meandering is a form of walking fieldwork where participants engage in a series of  “focused distractions”—activities like collecting, sampling from the environment, and microphotography—to redirect their attention and uncover alternative perspectives. The Moss Map serves as a multi-layered, always changing, exploration of experience and memory, documenting a meandering research journey.

See Bryophytes project with Gallery Oldham

Images from the ‘Proximity’ exhibition At Abingdon Studios 26 Aug – 16 September 2021. The ‘Moss Map’ and bottle terrariums were created as part of the bryophytes project at Gallery Oldham.