This video installation is a brief reflection on landscape, migration and memory. It was created with five women who had left other places in the UK and Europe to build new lives on the edge of the Thames Estuary. What remains in our memories of the landscapes we left? How do we experience the landscapes through which we travel? And how do we experience the vivid colours and sounds of nature in the here and now?

 

The video was made a part of Common Grounds, a new collaboration between We Live Here and Award-winning Photographer Allie Crewe working connecting local and refugee/asylum seeker communities in Medway and Essex through themes of landscape, nature and belonging. It explores women’s experiences of landscape and nature as places of solace and health, but also places of risk, danger and threat, both real and symbolic. The exhibition of photographs will be presented at Riverside Country Park, Gillingham, in June.​​

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Concept: Tim Harrison

Facilitation: Jade Anderson

Videography: Rich Berry

Poems by Mahsa Khadiri & Dan Wang, from a project with Zakiya Mackenzie

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Participants: Philly Rose Scott, Yuliia Savchenko, Heike Nwagbo,

Tetiana Vorobyova, Yana Turzhanskaya