Films by
Colin McPherson
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282 lines
Scotland has 282 mountains over 3000 feet (914.4 meters). Collectively known as Munros, after Sir Hugh Munro, the first person to catalogue them in 1891.
Walking and running concludes on the apex of a Munro with drawing a rope line.
Journey as line.
Marking space in time.
Record of being
Being in landscape.
Moving on a time line
a line of time.
A memento is taken in the form of a stone. A minute token of place, billions of years old, it’s origin a star. Location, altitude, date and time are literally composed in poetic reference for reflection on place, landmark, journey, movement ,and time.
one
line
birth life death
beginning middle end
star creation extinction
As a child, I could never sit still. I was nine years old, impatiently waiting at my school desk for the bell that signaled play time. I can’t recall how long I had but I set a goal to run around the perimeter of the playground 100 times before the bell to signal the end of play time. Returning to my desk a sweaty mess, I achieved what I set out to do.
I’ve never stopped setting goals that in some way express a need to run or walk with an awareness of place, time and distance travelled. These are measurable, recorded, quantifiable elements in relation to performance.
I like to think there's a fundamental need for human beings to move. Human movement across space and time defines the human species. The body, under its own locomotion, evolved to walk and run great distances, creating visible and invisible 'lines' in the landscape, drawn over millennia.
Human movement tells our collective and individual stories. The lines we make tell us where we are, where we've been and where we're going. Line becomes storyline; who and what we are and who and what we become.