The return.
In 2016 I made a film called The Unconformity Project
In the world of Geology, there is tell of a famous event that took place one day in 1788. The story is recounted in ‘Transactions - Volume 5’ from The Royal Society of Edinburgh and is about three men in a boat, bobbing up and down in the sea, just off Siccar Point on the South-East coast of Scotland. One of the men in the boat was James Hutton, and he was out to prove to his two friends that the world wasn't created in 4000 BC as the Church told them, but was in fact billions of years old (4½ billion actually). His interpretations of rock enabled an understanding of some of the magic stuff, through his beliefs about Deep Time… about mountains, stars and galaxies... and evolution... 15 years before Charles Darwin was born.
We have just revisited Siccar Point for a week in a caravan, taking with us some new ersatz unconformities, lit with ultraviolet and the arctic wind.
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