During my residency at the Bleddfa Centre, I spent time walking through the landscape surrounding the centre. I was drawn to the Four Stones, a prehistoric stone circle in Powys. As soon as I entered the circle, I had the unexpected feeling that the place itself was speaking to me. Words began to emerge before I consciously understood them, and I instinctively recorded them on my phone as they came.
Later, I transcribed and translated these spoken words, which became the poem La Quinta Piedra (The Fifth Stone).
While I was inside the stone circle, a storm moved across the landscape. I found myself sheltering among the stones, listening to the wind, watching the changing light and the flight of a red kite overhead. The poem, the photograph and the performance all grew from this encounter.
Rather than describing the landscape, the work became a response to it — a dialogue between body, territory and memory.
This experience connects with my wider practice, where I work with storytelling, textiles, photography, performance and materials such as wool, thread, stone and seeds. I am interested in the relationship between the body, memory and place, and in how stories can be carried through materials and gestures.
My work often begins with an encounter: walking, listening, making or remembering. I allow the process to unfold without always knowing where it will lead. In this way, the landscape becomes more than a subject. It becomes part of the work itself.