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Drains, Cables, and Cuts

2005

Annabel Howland

Drains, Cables, and Cuts is a new photographic/video installation by Annabel Howland comprising the artist's signature cut-out images, a series of related landscape photographs and, a first for the artist, a digitally animated film: Cut Drains, Charts, Creeks and Cuts.

Drains, Cables, and Cuts is the latest in a series of works on the theme of landscape and technological innovation produced as part of Silicon Fen, a three-year programme of artists' projects supported by Arts Council England East.
The focus of the project is the landscape of the East Anglian Fenland, rendered through the lens of a camera or a series of highly tactile cartographic abstractions as a complex network of lines.
From the ground, the flatness of the Fens makes everything appear in relation to a vanishing point or an ever-present horizon line. From the air this unique landscape reveals itself as an intricate, evocative space of overlapping lines and contours. The paths of old watercourses visible in the soil diverge from their contemporary counterparts or converge with other features, such as physical or administrative boundaries.

Babylon Gallery, 01-Apr-06 to 14-May-06
Waterside Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4AU

King's Lynn Arts Centre, 14-Jan-06 to 14-Feb-06
29, King Street King's Lynn Norfolk PE30 1HA