Elaine Fisher

(re)searching ‘Buddo’ as ‘mother goddess’, Hoy Sound, Orkney “…so that by walking on the land, you walked on the torso of her divinity, you explored her breasts, her armpits, the space between her thighs, or ran the endless ripple and swell of her back for mile after mile” (Woodman, Marion (1993) Leaving my father’s house: a journey to conscious femininity)

Collage of photographs taken in Valletta (Malta) in search of the Mother Goddess

A series of assemblages arising from an ongoing enquiry into Britain’s Jurassic Coast – from the promontory of Portland in the east, along the 18 mile stretch of Chesil Beach, to Eype in the west.

Para(meter) was commissioned by OSR projects and B-Side to audio-record the phenomena of pebble sorting along Chesil Beach from inside Weather Station. Measured by walking speed and sampled by the requirement to stop for ‘fresh air’, durational audio recordings attempted to ‘hear’ the erosion in pebble size, using the sphere’s micro-climate to separate pebble sounds from the predominant sound of the wind and crashing waves. “The audio playback abstracts into a kind of white noise which, when played through Fisher’s chosen medium – vinyl record – sets the viewer onto a contemplative journey where the record’s eternal cycle puts one in mind of Fisher’s own trundle-wheel traversal along the shore, and after a while the rotation of Earth itself.” (Trevor H. Smith this is tomorrow published 29 Sept 2016)

Finding Core