Reimagining the notion of belonging/outsider through an engagement with the trees in a park in Perth

A poetic exploration of Derrigimlagh bog, a remote landscape once transformed by technological ambition and now reclaimed by nature.

Middlesex Filterbeds Nature Reserve, Hackney, London, UK Drawing on ecological posthumanism and creative practice as research 'In the midst of rich meadows […]' responds to calls for new ways of paying attention to sites of historic and contemporary human and fellow being entanglements. Through my fieldwork, in which I include off site film making, I hoped to answer the question 'How can creative practice at engender a more ecological approach to heritage sites?'. Rather than ‘fill a gap’ I aimed to add to the emerging body of research calling for an ecological rethinking of heritage that recognises the deep entanglements of nature and culture. Drawing on this, and on the ecological posthumanism that has influenced it, I used creative practice and film making to the call for new ways of paying attention to the world and working with the vibrant entanglements of humans, fellow beings, and the places we all inhabit.

Crawling across a field with a macro lens, we are flung into more-than-human encounters and other ways of seeing