Flora Gregory, 3-9th September, 2022
At Brisons Veor I researched and started developing a new participatory project. It was a very windy and rainy five days so the weather was challenging and it wasn’t very long. I had to adapt what I was doing and work in a different way to what I had intended.
My thanks to all the people who I met when I was out walking and who kindly participated in the research for the project:
Richard (National Coastwatch Institution), The Wild Swimming Ladies in the pool at Priest Cove, Anne from Cambridge, Barbara and Mat from St Buryan, Laura at Newlyn Art Gallery, Jo and Lucy from Bristol, the folks at the Little Wonder Café, Linda who I met on a stile after I had been watching seals in Porth Ledden, Jo from Norfolk, Helen from Whitstable in Kent, Simon and Hilary also from Bristol who I met on the seat overlooking the Brisons at Porth Nanven, Charlotte and Amanda who I met at Truro museum, Diana and Paul in Devon who I stayed with on the way back home from Cape Cornwall.
It was a very successful few days of research and development, and I look forward to continuing it as soon as I can.
Being at Brisons Veor – such an inspirational creative haven – and having this time away from everyday life provoked not just constructive thoughts for this project, but creativity truly got going in other ways. I started to compose a piece of music on the piano and a couple of ideas for poems also emerged. And to my delight I realized the area was an SSSI ! There was so much nature about, a great part of the inspiration. My happiest time was sitting in the sunshine on a rock one evening when there was a lull in the weather, in Porth Ledden just behind the studio with half a dozen seals for company.
I started reading Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover.