Working Against Time (2021)
Working Against Time examines the relationship between an 8th-century landscape along the Welsh boarder and its present day condition, questioning how histories remain embedded within the land.
The work combines three elements: temporary sculptural interventions drawn from the story of Offa, sites shaped by human impact, and areas left to regenerate. Using found materials, Edwards constructed text-based interventions referencing the Battle of Maldron, drawing parallels between historical conflict and contemporary environmental change, including harvesting within the forest.
These interventions were intentionally temporary and dismantled, ensuring minimal impact on the environment. Photography functions as both record and evidence, preserving traces of these gestures along Offa’s Dyke Path.
Through this process, the work considers how landscape carry layered histories of use, marking a moment in time while reflecting on the continuity between past and present.
In order of (1-15); ‘The Human Battleground’, ‘In a Murky Land’, ‘Theatre of War’, ‘Offa Spoke’, ‘The Modern Spear’, ‘Marking Time’, ‘Twentieth Their Tenth’, ‘Untamed’, ‘Enmeshed’, ‘Borderlands’, ‘Perished in One Hour’, ‘The Lonely Tree’, ‘Unconstrained’, ‘Scattered Broken of Motionless Form’ and ‘Working Against Time’.
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