Blea Water 13th April 2010
The high level of Blea Water exposes the surface to strong SW winds that drive the water into a see-saw motion. Downward draughts from High Street accentuate this rhythm and create the pulsing overflow of water at the sill that sits on top of the moraine holding back the mass of water that plunges to 60 metres, the deepest cirque tarn in the Lake District.
As we reached the level of the water, the mist clung to the high ridges, gradually peeling back to reveal snow deep in high crevices.
The sound of the pulsing tarn became the recording taken by Richard for a film about water surface for the project’s exhibition.
As we descended to Haweswater, the sense of the glacier that scoured the valleys and created the landscape was strong. The boulders that lay scattered on the ground, abandoned by the ice sheet thousands of years ago, were existing on a much slower timescale. We were as May Flies.
Paul
