I often use the myriorama format as a way or combining interconnecting systems: environment, nature, industry, tourism, agriculture, psychology and art. Previous myriorama projects are: Connectives (2020) and Materials from the Garden (2021)
A myriorama - meaning multiple views - is a set of cards depicting interchangeable paintings of picturesque landscape that can be rearranged to create a near-endless variety of cohesive scenes.
Myrioramas became a popular craze across Europe in the early 1800s providing entertainment as well as a means of learning about aesthetics just as tourism was developing and as ideas of picturesque and sublime were being challenged by profound changes due to industrial and agricultural revolution.
I was commissioned by Our Picturesque Project to make a myriorama to include picturesque aspects and archetypal features of the Dee valley AONB whilst introducing elements that reflect the dilemmas and pressures of intense and often conflicting demands: to notice the barriers between marginal communities and the heritage sites and to help make connections between them.
These are some of the research materials gathered during a four day residency phase:
The myriorama offers a framework to respond imaginatively to diverse sites, combining views of iconic features alongside elements, structures, objects and natural processes that may be hidden or more easily overlooked. It can speak of entrenched histories and ways of seeing, but it can also inspire us to tell new stories, imagine together different actions, choices and futures in a time of climate and environmental emergency.
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