The Southdean Project and Beyond — ‘Essaying’ Site as Memory Work

  • Iain Biggs
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Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Abstract

This chapter offers a reflective account of the production of my artist’s book Between Carterhaugh and Tamshiel Rig (Biggs, 2004). This book is one outcome of my Southdean Project, engaging with a physical site just north of the English–Scottish border and with a fictional site central to the traditional Borders ballad Tam Lin, which deals with fairy capture, love and magical transformation, all framed within the context of an early medieval quasi-pagan Borders culture. These two sites are important because one belongs to a physical archaeological heritage that is rapidly being lost while the other paradoxically continues to exist within the fictional context of the ballad.

Keywords

Memory Work Social Memory Personal Memory Spectral Trace Physical Site 
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