Before I came to live on Lundy, one of my volunteer roles was as a Lundy Ambassador, giving guided walks for visitors. As well as my Ambassador role, I also used to take holidays on Lundy.
Whilst on Lundy Island in December 2020, yes, just before Covid! I decided to walk from St Helens Church in the village to the North Light, the route the Lighthouse keepers would have walked from the village to the Lighthouse on the North of the Island.
Often this trip by the Lighthouse keepers would be made in the Lundy fog or at night, so marker stone were put in at regular points to help keep the Keepers on the path.
I decided on one similar foggy day to cover the same journey but photograph each of the marker stones. As I walked the 3 miles. I took photos and wanted to count the number of stones, I lost count; but it was around 106. ( I have tried to count using google earth and most are visible but some less so. I also asked the Lundy Field society if they knew, but they didn’t either.
These marker stones are made out of Lundy granite, similar size but different in shape.
I have used these stones of granite for a couple of my artwork pieces, However I wanted to focus on the nature of the granite and associate my work to the linear aspect that represented the long line of stones.
The Making process
In the making of the work I had to crop out the rocks to remove the backgrounds which I did in Photoshop. I then took the images from Photoshop and laid them out to create a page in indesign. Then this format which would form a meandering book by simply cutting and folding. The meandering book created an interplay between user and book.
