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Wool felt inlaid appliqué and hand stitch
100cm x 153cm
Stratigraphy explores time as layers, visible through the strata of rock and soil. Hampshire Cultural Trust’s archives contain hundreds of beautiful hand drawn and coloured illustrations that document the archeological sites and record the location of finds. Stratigraphy is taken from one such drawing of a trench, located on Sussex Street, Winchester. Soil has been carefully and painstakingly removed to a considerable depth and sifted for items of interest. The remaining trench wall is divided into a grid and documented before being refilled. This slow process of observation and documentation is created by hand and human eye; requiring a skilled understanding of what is being seen and how to depict it. This enables others to read this underground map of time and geological activity, detailing every change of soil colour, lump of chalk or shard of flint.
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