PROCESS | Remembering together fife

In 2022, Greenspace Scotland was given funding by the Scottish Government to initiate and commission artists in every local authority across Scotland to co-create something with communities to sensitively mark the pandemic. The Scotland-wide national project is called Remembering Together

I was privileged to be appointed the role of Lead Artist for Fife, and began a period of community engagement to discover what communities felt would resonate.

Following a period of extensive consultation, communities demonstrated their desire to forge something with a positive impact and legacy in response to acknowledging this difficult shared experience. They decided that the Fife element of the RT project should have a focus on investment in its people at its heart, specifically kickstarting our collective journey to wellbeing. This would provide a path to a positive legacy growing out of a shared trauma.

Communities focussed on the vital role Fife’s landscape played daily during lockdown and were keen to mark this period by co-creating something which celebrates our rich landscape, encouraging us to spend more time outdoors engaging with it. They noted barriers to accessing activities designed to boost our mental health and voiced their desire to overcome this.

Below are online copies of the two handbound books, INLOOK and OUTLOOK, contained within the boxed publicaton PROCESS, documenting Fife’s collaborative response to this project. INLOOK describes our collaboratve journey, and OUTLOOK contains simplified ‘how-to’ instructions of some creative processes undertaken by individuals and community groups, with the hope that others will share in learning these mindful processes.

Each part of PROCESS has been carefully made by hand by the artist, with careful consderation given to each material used, with printing and production costs being carbon balanced. 500 copies of this boxed publication will be gifted across Fife to civic spaces including schools, colleges, libraries, community centres and collaboraters in early 2025, in addition to this digital publication being accessible online until 2030.

Included in each gifted artwork of PROCESS:

  • PROCESS - Working camera obscura, housing the box contents

  • INLOOK - Handbound book, project overview

  • OUTLOOK - Handbound book, containing simplfied ‘how-to’ instructions

  • LIBRARY of LANDSCAPE | PROCESS - Botanical Inks from Fife’s Landscapes

  • FLORIOGRAPHY of FIFE | PROCESS - Flowers, retracing lockdown walks

  • CONNECT - Paint-Your-Own Postcards for creating botanical inks and anthotypes

  • ROOT - 8 organic wildflower seed packets & floriography meanings

  • Hidden compartment contaning: brushes, glass vials for storage, glass pipette dropper, cloves for preserving, shell palette/inkwell foraged along the Fife Coastal Path

Handbound books : inlook & outlook

inlook

An overview of the co-creation project across Fife 2022 - 2024

(500 copies Litho printed on hemp paper, handbound by the artist)

outlook

Recipes and a simplified ‘how-to’ guide to inspire further exploration into some of the processes explored during the co-creation project across Fife 2022 - 2024

(500 copies Litho printed on hemp paper, handbound by the artist)

library of landscape | botanical inks

(500 copies Litho printed on 100% hemp paper)

floriography OF fife | retracing lockdown walks

(500 copies Litho printed on 100% hemp paper)

Root | connect

Seed Wallet containing 8 organic wildflower varieties, printed on paper made from spent brewer’s grain

6 paint-your-own postcards, suitable for botancal inks & anthotypes, 100% cotton fibre