Sand Boats// Peat Takes a Walk

In the past, these lands were used as peat fields. They said those fields reshaped the land where we stand today. Soil formed like peat bricks, taken from the land, was transferred by boats to other places to heat homes. As peat harvesting reformed the land, canals were adapted for this journey to let boats transfer peat.

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Sand Boats are a type of soil brick formed as a boat. They said soil carries memories, so this is the reason why sand boats love to walk through water, to

remember and find past traces of ancestors.

In this work, I trace the forgotten traces held in the land. I work with soil as something that holds shape, memory, and loss. I follow how the ground was cut, removed, and re-formed — how it changed through use, and how something of it still remains.

 

Like the peat bricks that once travelled by boat, these soil boats are shaped to travel and dissolve. They are not made to last, but to be remembered by dissolving with time.