As an interdisciplinary visual artist, my ties have always been to the landscape – but in recent years I’ve realised how inadequate my understanding is of the non-human world, and how very limited are my attempts to represent or interpret aspects of what we call nature. All I have to work with are impressions; momentary glimpses filtered through my selective consciousness. The ‘landscape’ escapes us, not because it is other, but because we are embedded in it. Something strange has happened: our reification of the non-human, ‘natural’ world has put it at arm’s length, and while we try to ‘describe’ it, or ‘represent’ it, in whatever style we favour, what we produce is a sad and diminished reflection of ourselves. The non-human world, in all its mystery and beauty, eludes us.

If I can’t translate the conversations I have with nature, I can at least record them, and at some point I may begin to understand them. Each short film I make is an observation, and as I edit, I begin to see why I was looking in the first place.

Yn Chy (Old Cornish for ‘at home’) 10.07’ is a three-channel HD experimental film (16:9).

As a visual artist, I continue to explore my connection to the landscape through film as research.