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EXCHANGE


Parallel Presents
06–2024

Title: Parallel Presents
Name: Renate Lurdesa Baumane
Voiceover: Artemis Morgan
Sound: History of Change, William Doyle


Landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

Perceived space acts as an artefact of memory. Mull is a landscape that cannot be defined solely by its terrain, it gains character through the human perspectives on it. Re-interpretation of places of memory enables speculation about past narratives, starting from a contemporary body in the same space. Narrative provides context in which the facts we observe can be interpreted, understood, and acted upon. They end up being the truths, or the ideas we accept as truths, that underpin the perceptions that shape our reality.

An idea, an artefact, a language leak into the contingent, biological, mineral, physical matter. Fiction slowly seeps into reality, contaminating the existing.

A parallel present transforms a reality with an unknown possibility of itself.