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SKYE EDGE
Charlotte Morgan

Skye Edge, Sheffield, UK










‘Skye Edge is written in response to a site by the same name; an area of disused land that lies atop a steep hill rising out Sheffield, UK.

The text is structured as a series of subjective encounters with Skye Edge and with the domestic space within which I write, which are interwoven with fragmentary deviations into the spaces of memory and the imagination and the words of other writers and residents. The movements of a flock of homing pigeons that occupy a series of pigeon lofts built into the hillside, along with the building work at an adjacent housing development and the elevated vantage point afforded by the site are anchors around which to explore notions of home, homing, orientation, loss and construction.

Skye Edge makes use of images, layout and a shift in registers between prose and poetic language to express a transition between exterior and interior spaces, both physical and psychological. Drawing from my experience of making a home during a time of collective and personal grief, the work acknowledges the influence our sense of emotional and physical situatedness within our perception and interpretation of a site.’

Charlotte Morgan

 

 

Echoes and Intersections is a collection of site-writings produced as part of the module Critical Spatial Practice: Site-Writing across the MA Architectural History, MA Situated Practice, and MA Historic Urban Environments dgree and PhD programmes at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

The featured works take the reader through fixed spatial locations and buildings, and on temporal journeys across ambiguous lands and waters. Written simultaneously across the globe, our situated writing offers diverse perspectives and narratives on plural geographies, landscapes and cities, through pieces interwoven with multiple, intersecting threads.

Many of the works occupy edgelands, peripheries or crossing points, writing the boundaries of buildings, states or bodies. They explore homelands, homes and selves that have been deconstructed, revealed and returned to. Echoing with memories, histories and absent others, the sites written carry the voices of place and voices displaced or fragmented, which resonate through the materials of the land - mud, sand, sky and rock.

These writings can be read in any order, allowing connections to emerge differently upon each reading.

Curatorial committee: Toby Blackman, Chia-Ying Chao, Kanza Leghari, Charlotte Morgan & Rasha Saffarini. 

With thanks to Polly Gould, Jane Rendell and David Roberts.


Bloomsbury Festival 2021

In October 2021, participants from the class read from their work on Bloomsbury Radio as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2021, alongside Polly Gould, Jane Rendell, David Roberts and participants from the class of 2020.

Find the recordings on Soundcloud here.