HODGE BECK

A project with AHH and Artlicks

exploring Herbert Read’s The Green Child 2022.

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In the second part of Read’s novel, Sally, the green child of the book’s title, leads the protagonist by the hand and together they sink below the stream to a Utopian realm.

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In response to The Green Child,  photographic imagery, videos of under and on the surface of the beck and a sound recording of the spring bursting into the stone trough down at the mill were installed in the yard buildings at Cow Syke Farm. In a stable, visitors were invited to gently drop clay press-moulded versions of maple seed heads into a rusted steel bowl half full of water, where they slowly dissolved. The video shown here is taken beneath the fast flowing water of Hodge Beck.