Fairbourne, has been declared the first village in Wales to be given back to the sea in a planned ‘decommissioning’ over the coming 22 years. This will create the first known Climate Refugees within the UK. Decommissioning involves the removal of all traces of life, residents will be relocated, buildings and infrastructures will be dismantled and deconstructed. Using walking as a methodology, this long-term research process, with the aim of taking multiple positions, from historical and mythical references, dating back to 6th Century, to geological and archaeological research from the early Holocene, tracing lost lands below the sea, that hold largely unexplored records of settlement and colonisation linked to climate change over millennia. My aim is to not only walk, but to map the dismantling of human presence over the coming years, creating dialogues with residents both past and present, creating movement, recording change with all involved parties and most importantly, the environment itself.

Photographic and text pieces 2019