Quinn: Until the Land Runs Out

In my local memorial garden where I go and sit there are a number of these photographs displayed around the gardens. I thought they depicted soldiers who had died in WW1.
Instead, after doing some quick research I learned that, this is the fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who. walks from the south-west of England, through Wales, to the far north of Scotland in post Second World War Britain.
The work is in response to the real experiences of young men and women post-trauma, both in the mid-twentieth century and now. The life changes imposed on each geheration by conflict and global socioeconomic collapse as well personal tragedy produces a constant stream of people left untethered in the world, often travelling in any way they can to find a new home and a new purpose.
As we follow Quinn on his odyssey, we travel with him on a physical and metaphorical journey mediated by the British landscape. The ancient byways along which he and others have travelled often remain as they were in the 1940s, and yet with the immutability of change and the unremitting nature of time passing, lives and memories change and fade. As we walk alongside Quinn and learn his story, we may perhaps come to understand more about our own search for existential meaning, and ponder our own purpose in life.
Quinn is a meditation on grief, loss, loneliness, the search for meaning, and the possibility of redemption through time and landscape.

Wales never fails to surprise me.