1. 'Erow Hok' (Hawk Acre)
Single channel video
3mins
2. 'Erow Oula' (Owl Acre)
Single channel video
4mins
Derived from the Cornish language, each instruction in 'Erow Hok' is a formula for a kind of protective and generative magic for birds experiencing persecution and decline. Spells, ritually drummed and cut into each sculpture with buzzard bone, are transmitted at dawn and over distance by fog, wind and weather. It is intended as a means for fragile bird life (in this case, cuckoo, rook, crow, owl and hawk) to persist undisturbed by light or noise, trespass or ignorance.
Translations:
Kog, Kemmer Ferv Hok (Cuckoo, take hawk shape)
Bran, Ottamma Kig (Crow, flesh is here)
Oula, Gwra Oyow Hav (Owl, make summer eggs)
Bargos, galw an re varow war-tu ha bora (Buzzard, summon the dead to dawn)
bio
Jim Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.
He is represented by Anima Mundi gallery in Cornwall.
@hailglower
https://www.animamundigallery.com/jim-carter-artists-page/
Single channel video
3mins
2. 'Erow Oula' (Owl Acre)
Single channel video
4mins
Derived from the Cornish language, each instruction in 'Erow Hok' is a formula for a kind of protective and generative magic for birds experiencing persecution and decline. Spells, ritually drummed and cut into each sculpture with buzzard bone, are transmitted at dawn and over distance by fog, wind and weather. It is intended as a means for fragile bird life (in this case, cuckoo, rook, crow, owl and hawk) to persist undisturbed by light or noise, trespass or ignorance.
Translations:
Kog, Kemmer Ferv Hok (Cuckoo, take hawk shape)
Bran, Ottamma Kig (Crow, flesh is here)
Oula, Gwra Oyow Hav (Owl, make summer eggs)
Bargos, galw an re varow war-tu ha bora (Buzzard, summon the dead to dawn)
bio
Jim Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.
He is represented by Anima Mundi gallery in Cornwall.
@hailglower
https://www.animamundigallery.com/jim-carter-artists-page/