The Fireweed Turns

Video installation with sound; 12 mins (2023).
Artist book; hardcover, 88 pages, 230 mm x 230 mm, UV offset printed, spot gloss varnish, 8 circular die cuts, 33 photographs, 7 texts, 1st edition (2019).

The landscape of the Pacific Northwest was rooted in my memory and imagination at a young age. When I was nine years old, my family moved from the Sultanate of Oman to America. My father worked on a remote island in the Aleutian Chain and would come home with stories of the men and the landscape, both strange and incredible. At the same time, talk in the playground was of the local manhunt for the Green River killer. When I was later sent to school in Northern Ireland, the narrative of this extraordinary backdrop became fixed; it was a mythical place, somewhere that could excite and seduce, yet profoundly frighten. When I eventually returned as an adult to search for this formative landscape, I found the solo adventure I set off on was to that same fictional place.