Spring Tides Archipelago
‘In Portugal, all along the coast of Wales, and on some parts of the coast of Brittany, a belief is said to prevail that people are born when the tide comes in, and die when it goes out.’
James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890
A commission by Expermentica, Chapter Arts Centre Live Art Festival, 2018. This was a spoken word/performance which created an imaginary archipelago, a land that exists in myth, folkloric research, scientific fact, observed phenomena and the cult of the moon. It used the symbols of volcano, tidal wave, the moon and the sun. The narrative explored the archipelago potentially being inhabited by witches of Wales’ past, interwoven with songs and observations from personal experiences of motherhood, cycles, spinsters, web spinners and the folkloric meaning of crows in Sainsburys car park.
