Liz P-W’s Belas Knap

Interesting how the snow draws people out, makes them walk up there, but it seems that when they get there they don’t know what to do – most seemed to be just standing around looking dazed and confused! Perhaps the connection with nature and the landscape was too much take? – lured out by the snow, but the intensity / purity of barrow + land + snow rendered people unable to understand it properly, not enough rough and smooth, the features erased and blurred. But they do recognise it as something other, something spacy or timeless.

I’m aiming to visit the site at least once every two or three days for the whole of 2008.

The aim is to gather impressions of the site, its energy, and people’s interaction with place, and document this in visual arts and in descriptions of the sensory aspects of the place from social and archaeological perspectives.

This is the first entry in this weblog about work at the Belas Knap long-barrow by archaeology-illustrator and earth-energies artist Liz Poraj-Wilczynska and colleagues.