Hiraeth
The title Hiraeth means longing, homesickness etc. The title, the visuals and the music were all part of one original thought and idea, where the focus on one aspect was intrinsically tied to the others in an amorphous matrix of feelings.
The visual footage is of a locked off shot of a view looking out to sea through a window in a house situated on a hillside in Anglesey. Over a period of 24 hours, every two hours, eight minutes of film was taken. This was then transferred to a computer and edited down to fifteen minutes in length; the result is a continually changing landscape, the progression of change being barely discernable. (similar to watching the minute hand on a clock)
The content of the visual image is intended to work on many levels, primarily an ever-changing snapshot that invites the viewer to take time to ‘sit and stare’ and to absorb the beauty of all the elements, and how their respective scales of change alter the fixed image and our emotive responses to them.