Ghost Nets
Ghost Nets is a research project using the heritage fishing industries around the Lizard as a starting point - The peninsula is scattered with shipwrecks and ghosts of sailors lost at sea where only traces of these histories remain. Today the phrase 'Ghost Nets' has come to refer to the most prevalent form of plastic pollution. This project aims to create a visual connection between these two disparate times in the context or the recent politics and nostalgia.
Following from this I met with a fly fishing expert Russell Hooks and made unlucky lures from superstitious feathers – the albatross, the seagull and peacock.
Re-edited found 16mm footage
Photograms of the sea and fishing net found on the Lizard, re-edited 16mm found footage 'to catch a fish', a net fragment, polished serpentine stone and net needle.
