“Clustered Space “.

I created this temporary intervention on the site of an old iron ore mine at Croasdale,Cumbria in March 2023.The site is 900 hundred feet above sea level and I purposefully cycled up to the site with a full load of photograph equipment to take advantage of the deep snow formations on the sides of the old tips. I noticed a snow bank that had a thawed out strip in the middle due to a breeze channelled through the middle by a nearby bump in the ground. I was fascinated with this interior space and filled it with clustered snowballs. The slow thaw subtly changed the boundaries and made the snowballs roll as I worked inside the space.As a consequence,the creative process had an organic feel to it with subtle changes and deviations due to the thaw.After documenting the work I had to swiftly leave the Fells due to imminent blizzards.