The Land Bridge Project (Sweden) 2016

The Land Bridge Project uses the language of exposed archaeology to give its message temporal context. The work takes the form of a railed off pit at the bottom of which is a square of wave washed sand in which are  paths of preserved human footprints.

The Land Bridge Project was born out of the unpleasant nationalism that surrounded the events of 2016 and seeks to remind us (and re-assure our fellow Europeans) that whilst some may wish to separate our country we are still bound by our history, our heritage and our humanity.

The work evokes the prehistoric human footprints found in exposed sand banks  in several places around the UK  and proposes a notional causeway joining our country to the mainland, as indeed it was prior to the last Ice Age.