Saltings (Old English Word for Salt Marsh) is an immersive installation bringing saltmarsh landscapes into the gallery space through dual monitors, transforming emptiness into meaning through artistic care. The work presents experimental film of salt marsh and reeds in motion, each frame holding deliberate imperfections which capture nature's changing state. Poem fragments mark the floor as thresholds, inviting viewers to cross into a new experience.
Sounds of plants, birds, and water play through hidden speakers, creating a complete sensory journey. The installation explores marshes as liminal edgelands—in-between spaces that exist at the boundaries of land and water, valuing personal connection over distant viewing.
The work creates a place within a place, where marshlands exist simultaneously as physical reality and conceptual territory. Through layered sensory elements, Saltings reveals the quiet poetry of overlooked ecosystems and the subtle rhythms found within these liminal spaces, challenging viewers to reconsider the significance of edgelands that often go unnoticed in our daily lives.
