brockwell park, south east London, 2023+ - digital layered ICM images
Ruskin was painting the park in the sky long before it existed and it was just farmland. These images are ghosts of a long lost Ruskin early drawing, of the now long submerged river Effra (into the Thames). It is said that the tributaries and the river itself feed the ponds of Brockwell Park - which have enough fish in to support herons and cormorants. Water is all around the park and Herne Hill (an old english name for heron). 2013 saw some of the worst floods at the bottom of the park, where the old river is supposed to run deep. This winter and spring the park has been at its wettest - flooded on a superficial and deeper level. The water is in the consciousnesses of Herne Hillians. It's coming up through the soil and the mud and the tree roots and into the sky.