As an exploration into the reconnection with our local environments, which has become apparent for so many throughout the pandemic, Gwenllian utilises an archive of her own imagery and audio recordings collected whilst on daily lockdown walks, in Merthyr Tydfil. Sounds are merged and overlapped, just as imagery is cut and pasted. Hills become like clay, slopes are moulded soft and ground noticeably rough. The components are bound together with the overheard voice of the artist, who narrates her journey to ‘The Chwarel’. Slipping between both English and Welsh, Gwenllian utilises the spoken word to enhance the materialistic qualities of her local landscape and flesh out descriptive imagery of the textural surroundings.
Accompanied by a rust coloured map, Gwenllian encourages the audience to apply similar scrutinies to their local environment, “to collect imagery and sounds which distinctly indicate your own environment, and piece them back together to reform this new landscape”.
