{"id":2650,"date":"2025-12-27T19:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eleanorbowen.co.uk\/art\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-12-27T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:40:52","slug":"borderland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eleanorbowen.co.uk\/art\/paratext-clusters\/borderland-2","title":{"rendered":"Borderland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From End of Time Finds<\/em>, line art drawing, 2021. The image here, taken from End of Time Finds<\/em>, was taken at 5.36 on Sunday 10 June 2018, a period following the death of my parents during which I itemised as much as possible of my father\u2019s archive before the house was sold. Reading the past (excavation, itemisation etc) involves a process that replicates and folds into its object. So excavator and archivist leave traces of their own, and new objects are made.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scopic<\/em>, installation shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Substratum<\/em>, reframed found field photograph (1949) from Snappy Snaps<\/em> album<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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this is that has been<\/em>, reframed found field photograph (1960’s) from Snappy Snaps<\/em> album<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Prehistoric Landscapes<\/em> i, reframed found field photograph (1950’s) from Snappy Snaps<\/em> album<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Prehistoric Landscapes ii<\/em>, reframed found field photograph (1950’s)<\/span> from Snappy Snaps<\/em> album<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cabinet<\/em> (from End of Time Finds<\/em>) with content including a Kodak negatives wallet, 1936 coronation matchbox, drawing of hand holding pipe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BORDERLAND is an ongoing piece that began in 2019 with a small vitrine display at<\/span>
\nthe Wessex Gallery, Salisbury Museum, a celebration of my late father\u2019s<\/span>
\narchaeological practice comprising my own readings of his practice (informal<\/span>
\nfieldwork photographs, slides, maps, drawings etc), the finds I made while itemising<\/span>
\nthe work he left. A later exhibition (2021) drew on the same items and incorporated<\/span>
\nothers (Can We Ever Know the Meaning of these Objects?<\/em>, Gallery 46, London). <\/span><\/p>\n

A <\/span>key element for both installations was the soundscape, comprising field recordings\u00a0<\/span>made over time <\/span>in the <\/span>\r\n\r\nprehistoric landscape of Bokerley Dyke, which has since <\/span>prehistory <\/span>created the border between Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRecordings by Eleanor Bowen and Philip Mill, edited by Philip Mill.\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n
Borderland (video)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n