These are photographic samples from Lucy Barker's multimedia installation 'Between the sea and thee' that explores the liminal zone of Morecambe Bay - its intermediacy between land and sea.
It is a multi-media installation linking three linked spaces featuring video, photography, sound, sculpture and text that interpret three specific and contrasting locations along the Morecambe Bay coastline and the journey between them.
Each installation distils the essence of the locations and reinterprets them within an indoor environment to dramatic effect. With particular attention to the liminality of each location, using variations in scale and maximising the particularities of the differing spaces where the installation takes place, attention is given to shifts in perspective, offering the viewer varying experiences as they move through the work.
By looking deeply at and experiencing the locations around Morecambe Bay, the installation will afford the viewer an immersive experience of a distilled and expanded interpretation of this uniquely beautiful but at times treacherous landscape.
This piece is primarily aimed at people residing in and around the Lancaster and Morecambe Bay area. As a newcomer to the area, Lucy Barker has a viewpoint which differs from someone who lives here. Providing an intimate perspective and interpretation of particular points along the Bay from the viewing positions of an outsider, the piece will give local people an opportunity to view and experience the Bay in a way they may not have done before. At the same time, she hopes the piece is of a larger significance in drawing attention to the qualities of properties of liminal and littoral spaces in general. Accordingly, the work is intended as an immersive journey which has a broad appeal.
Seeing the liminal zone as a metaphor for human transformational experience, the artist considers what we project onto, interpret or subsume from our environment. How we connect with it emotionally and how our emotions might affect it. Through film, photography, writing, animation and sound, she draws on her time spent with the bay. Recording her perception and experiences of it over time, focusing on details and slowly drawing them into wider and deeper exploration. Distilling an expanse into a single grain. Converging on three particular areas of this vastly beautiful sea-land, with its treacherous sands and galloping tides. Each designed to evoke an emotional response relating to its particular and contrasting location. For three moments. In three spaces.