Benjamin Green

Ever Falling to the Sea (byth yn disgyn i'r môr) is an ongoing collaborative research project by Benjamin Green and Gabriella Rhodes which investigates creative dialogues between analogue filmmaking and sculptural practice in response to the landscape of the Llŷn Peninsula.

Over the summer of 2024, Benjamin undertook a research residency on Pen Llŷn where Gabriella is based exploring the use of analogue image-making processes to document the typographical features of the landscape from deposits of clay in the cliffs to sites of material history like brickworks and disused mines. In response to this work, Gabriella gathered clays from the same sites to create sculptural objects that abstractly interpret the landscape—from cloud formations to undulating hills and the meeting of water and stone. The project will eventually culminate in a series of installations where Benjamin’s analogue moving image work is projected onto, and looped around, Gabriella’s sculptures, creating a conversation between practices and two distinct responses to place.

Presented here are a series of images created during the residency, shot on medium format film and developed using gathered seaweed in a natural process.Ever Falling to the Sea (byth yn disgyn i'r môr) is an ongoing collaborative research project by Benjamin Green and Gabriella Rhodes which investigates creative dialogues between analogue filmmaking and sculptural practice in response to the landscape of the Llŷn Peninsula.