Graduate Exhibition

Blending imagery and sounds from the Blue Mountains, Australia, and the Isle of Skye, Scotland, these two films are in dialogue with one another, merging and blurring, in a reflection of the way Rebecca Waterstone has lived physically in one place, yet mentally and emotionally in another. In this work, Rebecca evokes her experience of a profound pulling and yearning for one place - and the people within it - while she is in the other. The imagery, sounds, and scents are intended to evoke atmospheric moods, and facilitate the visceral experience of these places. The spoken word element of the Skye film is a reading of a (fictional) Shipping Forecast – listened to by many in the north as a kind of lullaby late at night, conjuring romantic images of life at sea. Describing the often-tempestuous weather, it is a fitting metaphor for the inner turmoil of missing loved ones, and how enforced distance tears at the soul. Video: Rebecca Waterstone Sound piece: Rebecca Waterstone, Abi Fry, CC