Norfolk's Seventh Sense? St Gile's car park. (© T. Ashwin.)
Norfolk's Seventh Sense?
'The living skin of the land is our seventh sense, a vast repository of memory of what, as a species, we have felt and done and dreamed.'
Richard Mabey, Fencing Paradise: reflections on the myths of Eden (2005)
Using photographic imagery, an archaeologist documents his attempts at deepening his acquaintance with his ‘home territory’: North Norfolk and the Norwich area. After many years of study, how well does he really know it?
For more information about this developing project, please visit:
www.world-tree.co.uk/wt_trevor_seventhsense_gallery.html
TG 228 087: Upper Goat Lane, Norwich, NHER 127
April 2005.
Eternal recurrence?
Digital image, 10,000px x 4280px
Artist: Trevor Ashwin
Other works in the series are based on a barrow ditch at Caister St Edmund, the site of a barrow at Guestwick, a Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Salthouse, a World War Two radar tower at Salthouse and the churchyard at Wood Dalling.