Katie Harris-MacLeod

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Bloodwood sap pigment extraction/ process.

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le Janet M. NicLeòid

Bha agam ri fàgail, a’ faireachdainn glacte gu tur

Agus m’ inntinn air tràighean bàna,

Fuar-bheanntan ‘s frasan mìne,

Agus fearann fàsach, creagach, cruaidh.

Bha cruaidh fheum agam air an uair sin, ‘s air gaoth a chumadh air cois mi.

Corragan an uisge, fuar ’s fada, ro chuan dubh

‘S mi a’ tighinn, a’ cluinntinn an èig gun ghuth.

Ciùin ’s balbh, ach beò fhathast

Chaidh mo ghiùlan suas a’ bheinn

Cluas Mara | Sea Ear

Thèid a’ mhuir a chruthachadh le ar guthan. Cànan an eilein agus a shluaigh. Cuimhne mic-an-duine ann an cruth-tìre; Guthan air an call; Dàn an fhearainn; Cuimhne fuaime; Imrich; Mac-talla de na tha air fhàgail.

Salann | Salt 

Comharran cuimhne mic-an-duine, air am brosnachadh le òran, sgaothan eun, tìde, sruthan, gaoth is muir. 

Imrich; ùine; dìomaineachd; tairmean; ailidhean; cànan cuimhne; bròn.

Comharran cuimhne mic-an-duine, air am brosnachadh le òran, sgaothan eun, tìde, sruthan, gaoth is muir. Imrich; ùine; dìomaineachd; tairmean; ailidhean; cànan cuimhne; bròn.

Marks of human memory, inspired by song, murmuration, tide, currents, wind and sea. Immigration; time; transience; echoes; traces; language of memory; sorrow.

Comharran cuimhne mic-an-duine, air am brosnachadh le òran, sgaothan eun, tìde, sruthan, gaoth is muir. Imrich; ùine; dìomaineachd; tairmean; ailidhean; cànan cuimhne; bròn.

Marks of human memory, inspired by song, murmuration, tide, currents, wind and sea. Immigration; time; transience; echoes; traces; language of memory; sorrow.

Comharran cuimhne mic-an-duine, air am brosnachadh le òran, sgaothan eun, tìde, sruthan, gaoth is muir. Imrich; ùine; dìomaineachd; tairmean; ailidhean; cànan cuimhne; bròn.

Marks of human memory, inspired by song, murmuration, tide, currents, wind and sea. 

Immigration; time; transience; echoes; traces; language of memory; sorrow.

This image is documenting my initial process and visual response to the walk. Dried Dusle (duileasg), gathered from a beach facing Eilean nan Bam (Island of Women), a symbol of fertility; red and pink, anatomical in the way it moves, symbolising the death of this ancient knowledge and the women who were banished from Iona to Eilean nam Bam. The cyanotype mimics the colours of the skyscape and sea. Words, spiralling, an ode to the ancient rings of a tree; a nod to the ogham alphabet Maris spoke of and its presence within this landscape.

Celestial moonscapes/ inner landscape/ moonscape

Celestial moons growing this morn. I shall leave this piece to dry for a number of days, letting the light, salt and inks take form in whichever way they please.

Cyanotype, iron ink and foraged mangrove driftwood.