Art in the Romney Marsh
All Saints Church, Lydd, Kent.
Curated by Jonathan Wright, September 2011.
‘Autumn in the West’ consisted of three small framed films, placed in the North, the East and the South of All Saint’s Church.
The exhibition happened during the Autumn and visitors entered the through the West door. Therefore, the idea was to provoke a feeling of now and awareness of the orientation of the church and the cycle of life.
The ‘North Winter Death’ film was placed in the North by a stone tomb of a knight and consisted of a digitised 16mm film of a candle being blown out and the resulting curling smoke fading into black.
The ‘East Spring Birth’ film was placed at the East end of the South aisle and consisted of a digitised 8mm film of cherry blossoms bouncing in the wind.
The ‘South Summer Life’ film was in the area for Holy Water to be stored, on the South wall of All Saints Church, and consisted of a digital film of the sparkling sea.
The experiencers would've found themselves journeying around the church; the north, east, south and then west of the church, encountering notions of the cycle of the sun, the seasons, of film technology and fundamentally the cycles of life, from death to birth, through life to decay found in the autumn and the west.