Robin James Sullivan
SX0753
Robin’s latest project started with an article read in 2018, stating that by 1999 over 535 non-native flowering Plants and Ferns had been identified in SX0753 (The 1km grid reference of Par Harbour, Cornwall UK. This single line was a catalyst for what will be Robin's largest body of research to date.
Imagine you walk out of your door and see a plant growing from a crack, what if you were able to see it’s story, and then every interconnecting offshoot to that story…
The water in your body or the cells of your fingernails, may have been a cloud a year ago, or part of a shell on a beach, the last breath of a person, or the first of another.
This new interconnecting research body poetically explores landscape as not just a physical site, but as a living multilayered system; attempting to comprehend landscape as a place where multiple realities; past, present and future, coexist simultaneously. Landscape exists "in here" as well as "out there". To truly comprehend a landscape, one must attempt to understand how it is composed, how it moves, changes, and importantly exists in the minds of everyone who has ever entered or thought about it.
Neurons firing - creating thoughts - discharge energy, which has mass. Aka thoughts have weight. The more interlinked the thought the heavier it becomes.
[...] a person at one time and a person at another time can be said to be the same person, persisting through time.
[...] washed up on a beach, lit a fire, woke up to find a chard stone with tin melted out in the shape of a cross [...]
The water in your body or the cells of your fingernails, may have been a cloud a year ago, or part of a shell on a beach, the last breath of a person, or the first of another.
[...] see history not as a linear timeline of events, but as an interconnected map of interactions and influences [...]
[...] their trajectory is dependant [...]
[...] brain it is a web of connections, strenuous, emotive, literal, these connections get built over time.
[...] no less than 57 million tons of coal was produced in 1913, by 232,000 men working in 620 mines across Wales [...]
[...] to have enough money to buy them, adequate natural light to keep them alive, and time in which to care for them.
[...] not just a physical site, but as a living multilayered system, where multiple realities; past, present and future, coexist simultaneously.
Rev W Awdry found his inspiration for Bill and Ben, the next characters to join Thomas The Tank Engine [...]
[...] to function at a high ‘manic’ level, in which I am able to build larger maps and connections, this is also decreasing the size of grey matter [...]
Bronze age Cairn on Watch Hill had 27 layers from various periods of use. one such layer was Kaolin, carried in the basketful up the hill and dumped, a striking visualisation of a white ring on top of the hill.
Thomas Bond recounts in a book I have since forgotten and cannot find that the only other place he has seen walled gardens like those was in Phoenicia.
[...] in the act of tunnelling under ground, in the places you socialise, what the affect of this associative priming has on our decision making?
[...] because of this, the mersey waters become this swirling political and ecological backwash [...]
[...] large transatlantic ships would take great chunks of coast line from the south of England as ballast, dumping them on the east coast of america upon there arrival [...]
There is a story I remember that Canada didn’t have worms... or a type of worm...
[...] the stimuli and thoughts that are taking place between sessions will influence the shape and growth in an immediate way, where the long term overall image is compiled based on long term associative activation [...]
The purple dye was so valued in ancient Rome and before then because it required huge numbers of snails – maybe 1200 to dye a single toga.
[...] resulting in Swansea becoming an acknowledged world leader in metallurgical processing and manufacture.
[...] water treatment system injects an inert gas (such as nitrogen) into the tank or the ballast flow to asphyxiate the organisms.
[...] thoughts add to the landscape, our perception of it, and over time form the landscape. A landscape exists in here as well as out there.
[...] expanding in one area and enveloping in another.
Robin’s latest project started with an article read in 2018, stating that by 1999 over 535 non-native flowering Plants and Ferns had been identified in SX0753 (The 1km grid reference of Par Harbour, Cornwall UK. This single line was a catalyst for what will be Robin's largest body of research to date.
Imagine you walk out of your door and see a plant growing from a crack, what if you were able to see its story, and then every interconnecting offshoot to that story…
The water in your body or the cells of your fingernails, may have been a cloud a year ago, or part of a shell on a beach, the last breath of a person, or the first of another.
This new interconnecting research body poetically explores landscape as not just a physical site, but as a living multilayered system; attempting to comprehend landscape as a place where multiple realities; past, present and future, coexist simultaneously. Landscape exists "in here" as well as "out there". To truly comprehend a landscape, one must attempt to understand how it is composed, how it moves, changes, and importantly exists in the minds of everyone who has ever entered or thought about it.
