Lost | Annie Hogg

LOST
2023

LOST is a keen consideration of what happens in a landscape after the land has gone through conversion to an industrial scale farming model. Specifically a system of long established native hedgerows.

It is an examination of "the difference between non-intervention and taking human responsibility" (Masanobu Fukuokas), in the wake of such a happening. And asks how far human and non-human communities can be stretched in the face of these intensive farming and development models. It is a consideration of a phenomenon called solastalgia - emotional or existential distress caused by environmental changes.

3D Art / Lost

Map I

Ink pen on paper. 84cm x 59cm. Hand drawn map, created from memory by the artist. All species listed are factual in the memory of the artist.

Map II

Ink pen on paper. 84cm x 59cm. Hand drawn map, created from the site as it now stands. Artist revisited the site many times after conversion, but is still awaiting the return of the crows.

View of maps and entrance through panels

Panel I

4m x 4m - partially rolled at floor. Colouration is charcoal from 300 year old hawthorn stump from site. This panel is the first to be seen offers the point of entry. Intentionally, the colouration from Panel II is shining through, creating a link between both and an atmospheric invitation to step closer and explore further.

Panels I & II

Varying sizes between 4m x 4m and 4m x 3m. initial view as you enter through Panel I. Panel II is flush to the wall, so as to lead the viewer through the space and to the opposite wall, where there is the next entrance point. Panels are hung from the ceiling at skew angels, so that the space contracts as the viewer moves through. The colouration of Panel II has been achieved through extracting rust from a metal machine panel found on site.

Panel III

4m x 3.5m. As seen when viewer steps around the corner. These colours are rendered from the stones which once made the hedge walls, followed by a layer of hawthorn charcoal. The panel spent two months beneath the detritus left on site, atop the fairy fort. The imagery is inspired by a birds eye view of the new plough lines, cutting in close to the old broadleaf trees, remnants of the site as parkland.

Back Wall

This view opens up as the viewer walks around and out of the panels. Five hand blown glass vessels are held on twigs, which have been cast in bronze. All objects held inside and original twigs have been sourced from the site.

1. Charred Umbel Head

Glass - 13 cm x 28.5cm. bronze - 46cm from wall, piece hangs 200cm from floor.

Umbel head (cow parsley winter head) is partially charred and is suspended on a bronze cast ash branch.

2. Rain Water

Glass - 6cm x 13cm. Bronze - 37cm from wall, piece hangs 156cm from floor.

Rain water was collected from site, where the hedges outlining 'Matilda's Field' had stood.

The play of shadows between each piece has been given much consideration, with their lines forming part of the conversation.

3. Charred Bramble Nest

Glass - 12.5cm x 27cm. Bronze - 21cm from wall, piece hangs 123cm from floor.

Suspended on a cast ivy branch.

Green bramble was harvested from remaining tree line, woven into a basket / nest and partially charred. as a result of partial charring, rich rust colours shine through the carbon black.

4. Charred Found Fox Skull

Glass - 13cm x 27.5cm. Bronze - 23cm from wall, piece hangs 156cm from floor.

Partially charred fox skull from 'River Field', two fields away from the site.

The glass in this piece has been drilled once, with the cast ash twig piercing one side only and feeding up through the mouth of the vessel.

5. Tears

Glass - 5.5cm x 11cm. Bronze - 35.5cm from wall, piece hangs 179cm from floor.

Tears collected meticulously over time and saved in a little dropper bottle.
Tears have a colour.
In this case, the collection was mixed with a little rain water to stretch them out.
Branch is cast ivy.

Rescued Stump...

...of 300 year old hawthorn from the original hedgerow is present as a standing sculpture.
80cm x 40cm x 50cm

Sound Piece by Natalia Beylis

On its floor plinth sits the speakers ets., which are playing the composition created for the installation by sound artist Natalia Beylis. Running time 19:12 on loop.

"Nearly all of the sounds for this piece were recorded in Drumnadubber, Co. Leitrim. The birdsong at the start and at the end was captured in a section of commercial forestry that has since been clear felled.

Another part of the piece, empty of birdsong, was recorded several years later in the new wild fledgling forest that has grown in the wake of the clearfell.

Aside from the blackbird, all of the species of birds whose names are identified in this piece are currently on the 'Red List of Birds of High Conservation in Ireland'.

When the birds on this list are gone, it will only be through these types of recordings that we will remember their voices. For now, we eagerly await the imminent return of the birds to the young woodland at Drumndubber."

-Natalia Beylis, 2023.

LOST 2023

3D Art / Lost

LOST
2023