Field Recordings: Beinn Narnain, 2025
Soil and clay on library shelving

Field Recordings: Beinn Narnain is the culmination of three months of extensive research through several walks in one site.

In this work, soil samples were collected from different sites along walks up Beinn Narnain in the Arrochar Alps and compressed into abstract forms, which mimic the shapes of books, and explores the natural diversity of one site to evoke a sense of place.

Through this process, geological time is explored as a method of making and as an exploration of architectural form.

The work is presented as a library, evoking a space of movement and transition and acts as a dialogue between human movement in the land, geological time, and our desire to record and store information. This also indicates a larger intention for the work, where the objects are temporary and will be returned to the environment they came from, and exhibited and recorded, as they entropy back into the land.