Investigating the life of things across space and time

Star mapping

At dusk we walked into the forest with reflective materials and torches, plotting the night sky through the trees.

Collaboration between Sarah Gillett and Luke Harby (2018-2019)
Made possible by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

Featured in 2020 by Inside the Outside, a landscape photography collective mediating the liminal space between the world before us and within

Star Mapping

At the end of May 2018 I delivered a workshop at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art

‘Parts Unknown’ attempted to bring the stars down into Fermyn Woods County Park in Northamptonshire, allowing participants to discover the mysterious and infinite through shadow and illumination.

At dusk we walked into the forest with reflective materials and torches, plotting the night sky through the trees. I asked the artist Luke Harby to document the constellations that we made in the forest at night. 

In October 2019 Luke and I travelled again to the forest in order to revisit and build on the previous year’s work. These are the results.

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