Running with the Ebb Tide: Halcyon Days
For Severn WorldingA sound-piece in 2 parts
On the shifting sands of river, time & tide;
The fishers and the fished.
Running with the ebb tide
Created for Severn Worlding
an exhibition curated by Patricia Brien
at SVA Gallery 1st-10th July 2022
Halcyon Days
Jim the fisherman recalls his fishing days
A natural storyteller, his voice has a rhythm that belongs with the river
With an intuitive understanding deeply grounded in experience of Sabrina’s ways
Surfacing insights on lathe net fishing
Tide and sand banks can mislead the Salmon
A canny fisher will see the mark of the loom.
Margaret adds to his recollections – on elvering and shrimping at Sharpness.
These are memories of a way of life and traditions that are almost lost.
That come from knowing the landscape and it’s movements from the inside out
With a fish eye view.
The field recordings were made on a crystal clear and otherworldly eve
between strangely quiet years
In this liminal tideline, are textures of the Severn’s edges
Crunch of midwinter brittle grasses
Along the slippery tiered banks of a low tide sun
Sheens silver over mudflats and trickling gorges – the underbelly revealed
(Invoking Absence)
Our footsteps will be reabsorbed.
Severn Worlding
1st – 10th July 2022 at SVA gallery
An exhibition
curated by Patricia Brien
see more about this and her related exhibitions
HERE
Many thanks to Jim& Margaret for the stories
Patricia, SVA, & all the artists involved for making this exhibition happen
Carolyn Black for sharing the audio/visual space and alternating these sound pieces within her film show reel
Euan Maco McAleece for show reel mixing support