Recent Exhibition

Primordial

Life from the loch

An Talla Solais Gallery 25th May - 28th July 2024

Lotte thinks about the extraordinary creatures she shares the croft with. They live under the surface of the water. There is a whole civilisation, she tells me, with a large bridge, and they have always been there, happily singing, stargazing and exploring, doing what creatures do. Things fall from the sky - space junk and meteors, she tells me. I often see a face or a body in a tree, and, not far from home, there is a Green Man who stares from a rockface in a grotto they call the Fairy Glen. This way of looking at the world has been with us far longer than our present digital obsessions, or the fairly recent scraping of the planet by giant mechanical machines. Nature's underbelly should be there to nurture us. Seeing its infinite ecology connects us with...with everything, below and above the loch and within ourselves.

The creatures in this book are leaving. They've had enough of the dredging of the loch's bottom, pollution from fish farms and the plastics which now lie around and within its kelpy water. Our friends see that there is nothing left to do but abandon their below-water lives and look for a new home. This is just one very deep loch in the north of Scotland. How many creatures are leaving other places - the Antarctic, the Amazon, and the tarmacked nature right next to you? It is a sad thought for people who see from the corner of their eyes, and where will our creatures go?

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