Pat Hadley writes: On Sunday 9 October 2011 some friends and I attended Red Earth CHALK at Wolstonbury Hill near Brighton. This performance/installation piece used the landscape of one of the highest hills in the South Downs. The piece drew on the fact that the site has Bronze Age earthworks of various kinds that some archaeologists suspect had earlier origins.
We arrived to a lane full of cars and strolled up the hill to Chantry Farm. The large crowd, for such an esoteric event, was encouraging. We chatted for a moment as people assembled, the lovely late autumnal sunshine being countered by the noise of the A23 and the gusty wind.
A bell was rung and we gathered round two immense green flags which flanked Simon and Caitlin who explained that we were about to be taken on a journey ‘into the enigmatic landscape of Wolstonbury Hill‘. We were asked to resist the temptation to take photographs (hence the lack here – some are available on Flickr) and to maintain ‘mindful silence’ in order to maximise our appreciation of the experience.
More at
http://pathadley.net/2011/10/19/red-earth-chalk/
Flickr photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55496006@N02/sets/72157627865037172/
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