Gwyrdh Glas | Liwyow a Gernow
Gwyrdh Glas | Liwyow a Gernow (Green Green | Colours of Cornwall) was a joint commission for Flamm & Platforma 7 with Creative Kernow, ArtNight Dundee & Counterpoints Arts.
It includes the film Gwyrdh Glas within the Liwyow a Gernow installation of cardboard rocks made and painted during public workshops.
Gwyrdh Glas looks to the granite forms found scattered across Kernow such as at Carn Brea*, Trencrom and Rough Tor, and the connection to land that many have talked about throughout MESKLA. The work continues to look at contemporary Kernewek/Cornish cultural identity, and invite conversation around the impact of extraction industries such as tourism and mining, while we make sculpture.
Liwyow a Gernow includes conversation and making workshops in which ‘rock’ sculptures were made from reclaimed material, and paint them in colours that connect to our identities and our relationships with the land and rocks of Kernow. We name the colours in Kernewek/Cornish, creating new names that resonate with our conversations to use alongside the existing Kernewek names for colours.
Huge thank you to Kowethas an yeth Kernewek who have loaned dictionaries to the project, and to Cornwall Council's Cornish Language Service who continue to support the project with Kernewek translation.
*Carn Brea is a rocky hill with granite outcrops shaped by the squeezing hands of giants; I grew up with it always in my vision.
For more information and documentation of the Flamm festival, please head to the Flamm website.
The work is part of my broader MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh project.
Clip from Gwyrdh Glas, 2023
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