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This is from a project on a magical place in the Highlands of Scotland called The Clootie Wells, which I first (and last, due to the pandemic) exhibited in Edinburgh in 2019.

You can read about the project here: christimac.photography/bodyofw

I like to write a lot as accompaniment to my work, but I’ll leave that stuff over there.

SEE ALT TEXT FOR FAR MORE INFO

A documentary landscape image of a woodland entirely covered in "cloots". Cloth and clothing that is hung from the trees in a tradition that has possibly lasted since pre-christian times. More about it all in the link on my main post. The woodland is autumnal and brown, but it is nearly entirely obscured byt the shear mass of pastel coloured cloth hanging from every available inch. I had planned throughout the pandemic to return and make more work. Sadly, someone took it upon themselves to disregard thousands of years of local tradition and “tidy it up” by clearing the entire site overnight earlier this year. It made the national news here. The news was devastating both as a Highland boy for whom the site was a backdrop to my life, and professionally. It was, in my opinion, an act of unthinking vandalism, and has much in common with the fishermen of Cornwall finding their boats burned. A consequence, I believe, of AirBnB society. Homes in the Highlands are now investments, and those that would actually call the place home are being squeezed by profit. It left my work as historical document, although I still plan to return, in the hope that the many, at the time angry, local folk will have restarted the site. I have, largely as a result of this project, embarked on an MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology. It’s a near perfect fit, and I’m hugely excited about it.
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The article I link above is also the most open I have ever been about my illness, but it is for the purpose of explaining the psychologies at play in places like this. I'm not looking for sympathy here. It's my life and i live it.

I have an AirBnB (part of the problem I fear) booked to go back home to the highlands for the first time since I made this work, to either finish it or decide that it's much bigger than it currently is.

So there's a little more to come from this project as it stands.

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The fact is that this phenomenon is actually huge. It's in surprising places, and there is some very interesting and research ongoing into the history of this and actually into the renewed practice in a modern context.

Oh crap. I'm talking myself into this being a much bigger project aren't I?

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I should add, I lifted most of the additional text in the alt from something i wrote last year.

So the "clearing" happened last year. I'm still very bitter about it.

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