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Psychogeology.

Talking rocks, sunken trinkets and quarry portals.

This blog is a sort of ongoing, updating, changing record of the work that is going on behind the scene of ‘Psychogeology’ a new team built/co-authored project about Barrow and its geology.

I’m Jack Brown, the lead artist on the project.

I’ve been working with a group of brilliant creative local residents to find ways to explore and respond to Barrow’s geology and deep history.

A pair of insoles made during our first workshop. Participants added text and images about their initial responses to the idea of Barrow’s geology. They slipped the insoles into their shoes and walked out into Barrow, with their ideas under their feet….

As the project progressed we broke into three teams each with their own focus. The ‘Hills team’ were interested in the Slag Hills in Ormsgill, the ‘Sea Team’ wanted to throw cameras into the ocean and the ‘Quarry team’ wanted to make a film of them disappearing back into the Quarry or maybe into geology its self.

Our day at the Quarry.

One task was to collect footage of the quarry.

This is rough cut of the footage collected.

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