Lochrutton 
Sarah Casey    

This rocky conversation took place on the sides of Lochrutton a former glacial lake behind my home in Galloway, with boulders bearing the traces of striation. For the past two years I have been working on a project called ‘Emergency!’ about the provocations of objects emerging from glacial ice high in the European Alps as a result of melt. During the pandemic, this led to looking closer to home at the post glacial landscapes that we now inhabit and the evidence left by behind glaciers many years ago – erratic boulders carried miles by glaciers long since disappeared,  lakes formed by glacial action, the sediment of former moraines.   When exploring an object or site, I typically use drawing to look closely and ‘be with’ the subject. I was interested in how this experience of proximity, of knowing through drawing, might be translated through remote video technologies to achieve presence at a distance.