Emma Spreadborough
Looking into the past of Ireland and its relationship to political identities, Emma's project, Other Lands explores the boarder of Fermanagh where the only indication of moving from North to South is a text message. When walking back over the boarder there's no notification that you have returned to Northern Ireland. Causing a confusion to where the boarder lies. The documentation of landscape here relates to a personal inquiry into the artists own relationship with Irish heritage.
Other Lands
(2022)
Other Lands was self- published in 2022, as an A5, edition of one book. Made with glass, tracing paper, oven-baked paper and newspaper.
The textures and transparency throughout the book, reveals and blurs the images contained inside. The book questions the feeling of labelling yourself within political camps, in the North of Ireland. Using the barren land of Cilcaugh in Fermanagh and it's invisible boarder-line to Southern Ireland. There is a sense of fragility which can be felt from the glass cover, which carries on as the book is experienced.
Text inside reads:
I found a passage hidden between other lands
The path led North
The sun shone South
I found a passage between other lands
Where I could be nowhere
And neither side all at once
I won’t go either direction
Here it’s quiet.
Here I’m home.
