Objects on display in The Cabinet:
These booklets are invitations, guides and gifts. A small group of people living in the Windermere-Leven watershed in Cumbria were asked to sit, meander, spend time by a body of water, whether a fast-flowing beck, a slow river, a calm or turbulent lake. They received these booklets as invitations to go out, alone. Inside, the booklets are brief guides to finding a place, keeping safe, settling and staying with the flow of water. Too, there are prompts offered, special to each person, questions that they could consider while they are by the waters, ones that directly and indirectly call up ideas of change, climate and the future. The booklets were given as gifts, and as a further invitation to a get-together and meal with the other participants to talk over their experiences and ideas and to meet the Future Machine. That was in 2021. In 2024, a similar form of project will take place, but the participants will be asked to do something different, again on their own, on the land, before coming together.
Wallace Heim
Cumbria, 2024
Future Machine Appears At The Windermere-Leven Waters When Summer Ends
Future Machine at the Windermere-Leven Waters in 2023: