Emmie Ray Hubbard

Emmie looks to the past to celebrate our history as well as unravel questions on sustainability. As we become aware of the impact our species has upon our planet, Emmie searches for guidance from our ancestors. She delves into myths. She repeats what has been repeated. There's a sublime challenge of appreciating what thousands of years feel like. 

During lockdown, Emmie has been collecting clay from Mam Tor in the Peak District. Mam Tor, Mother Hill, is studied for it's late bronze age history. She has been using the clay that is filled with ancient history to cast metal, replicating a prehistoric technique. This has enriched her material narrative and offered potential for future making.

The Field.

Grounding. Space to run. An ever continuum.

Thousands of paths interwoven between strands of grass.

You leave your trace as you walk through it.

Where the ground gives growth. Grasses touch. Riddles are posed through your fingertips,

through the whistling of winds, the sunburnt clay, the wave of terrain.

Walk in the field. A pilgrimage, not an attack.

scribbled field notes, imagined memoires. Step on steps that have been stepped.

Collect the rocks that have seen who were once seeing.

Walk through earth's time field. Repeating blind.

Time of light to dark. Dark to light.

I hear a sour sound in our mantra

The crinkle of the bottle I drink from as I walk.

Every step drawing louder.

The water holds a deep cry.

Let's retrace our steps and follow the tree's roots. To understand the process of weaving.

Let's touch the fingertips of the past to feel the echoes of the future.

Will we be ancient too?