The
Red River grew slowly but is a descriptive journey of a broken and damaged
landscape, where those who lived in the farms and cottages along this polluted stream
to survive their own world by their gardens and smallholdings.
As Southam
continued making these images, he also found that they took him on a metaphorical
journey, where stories, myths and visions that were buried in his imagination
found life in the landscape.
The river itself is no longer than
6-7 miles and no wider than a few feet, but for hundreds of years the water has
been diverted and used to aid the extraction of tine and copper ore from the
mines in the valley.
It rises on the granite spine of Cornwall at Black Rock
and flows north and then west to reach the Godrevy Sea. It’s not hidden but is
not much seen or appreciated by those visiting Cornwall.
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