Underwaterscapes
Underwater filming forms another sense of viewing the world of freshwater.
Encounter 1: Below the Falls of Falloch
John Kennedy’s sculptural work, Woven Sound sits as a viewing gallery space to gaze at the falls, with the words from a passage of Dorothy Wordsworth’s writing as follows:
Being at a great height on the mountain, we sate down, and heard, as if from the heart of the earth, the sound of torrents ascending out of the long hollow glen. To the eye all was motionless, a perfect stillness.
The noise of waters did not appear to come this way of that, from any particular quarter: it was everywhere, almost, one might say, as if exhaled through the whole surface of the green earth.
Glenfallach, Colridge has since told me, signifies the hidden vale; but William says, if we were to name it from our recollections of that time, we should call it the Vale of Awful Sound.”
Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803.
A view from the river - Raw footage below the Falls of Falloch
Below water it is another world of constant movement, refracted light and multiple rhizomatic connections.
Encounter 2: Dee River and tributaries - multiple affective spaces and rhythm