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The project is centered on Bass Rock an island off North Berwick, Scotland. The island is stooped in ancient mythology.
The island is a volcanic plug of phonolitic trachyte rock of Carboniferous (Dinantian) age.
Bass Rock stands more than 100 m (330 ft) high in the Firth of Forth Islands Special Protection Area which covers some but not all of the islands in the inner and outer Firth.
The Bass Rock is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in its own right, due to its gannet and Puffin colony and Bass Mellow vegetation.
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'BASS ROCK LIGHTHOUSE' Film Installation. Edinburgh College of Art
'BASS ROCK LIGHTHOUSE' Film Installation. Edinburgh College of Art
'BASS ROCK LIGHTHOUSE' Super 8 Film. Edinburgh College of Art
'BASS ROCK LIGHTHOUSE' Super 8 Film. Edinburgh College of Art
Bass rock is a magical place of fantasy almost like being transported back to another the prehistoric era. Bass Rock features in many works of fiction, including Lion Let Loose by Nigel Tranter, Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lion Is Rampant by the Scottish novelist Ross Laidlaw and The New Confessions by William Boyd. Robert Louis Stevenson had at least one strong connection with the Bass, as his cousin, David Stevenson, designed the lighthouse there. Amongst his earliest memories were holidays in North Berwick. He often stayed at Scoughall Farm, whence the Bass can be seen, and local lore is credited as the inspiration for his short story The Wreckers.
At the time I was fascinated by the notion of a lighthouse keeper and lighthouses and the architecture of David Stevenson who made many of the most iconic lighthouses. The poetic notion of being a lighthouse keeper on a remote rock in the sea, a job that entailed both bravery but also loneliness. I think that I could relate to the notion of isolation being on the autistic spectrum. I saw myself within this role, where imagination creates the world in which you interact with.
A lighthouse keeper features in the exhibition (an actor) and a fisherman called Dougal (a real fisherman) the film captures the journey from land to Bass rock, where the lighthouse Keeper plays his experimental accordion interacting with the wildlife.
The Projection of the film within the exhibition is placed within a Lighthouse I built, a mechanical devise rotates the projection from left to right. Duplicating a real lighthouse's lamps and lenses a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs and rocks.
The audience is transported to this mythological island and my projectile of fantasy; in tern the subtext of this experience creatively explores neurodivesity and the feelings of loneliness.
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