'Rural Shadow Walks' (2006) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

SD Digital video projection, dimensions variable, colour, sound (6 min)

'What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out if this stony rubbish? Son of man, / You cannot say, or guess, for you know only/ A heap of broken images' (l.19-22)

'Only there is shadow under this red rock / (Come in under the shadow of this red rock)' (l.24-26)

'That corpse you planted last year in your garden / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? / Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?' (l.71-73)

‘Waste Land’ is the culmination of a five-year project, which comprises twelve photographic and video installations derived from T. S Eliot’s 1922 poem. By utilising adaptation as autobiography, Waterman emotionally embodies the text, appropriating particular lines, concepts or images from ‘The Waste Land’ into her own fragmented narratives or adopting them as titles for the works themselves.