These stories are inspired by Norman Payne’s site specific installation at Plas Bodfa. They are written and performed by Norman Payne as a mocumentary to accompany his installation.
The work connects to the deep past through the ‘making special’ of an existing feature in the sunken garden. A monument is formed. Part folly, part sanctuary, escape from worldly concerns to explore a deeper connection with place and history.
Norman Payne
An act of sheer folly
2022
natural stone, cement, concrete
As part of the Bodfa Continuum exhibition at Plas Bodfa
9-24 April, 2022
History, storytelling and contemporary art collide in this fusion exhibition occupying the entirety of Plas Bodfa. This immersive exhibition exists in the space between fiction and non-fiction, real and imagined, yesterday and tomorrow.
Mae hanes adrodd straeon a chelf gyfoes yn gwrthdaro yn yr arddangosfa ymdoddedig hon sy’n meddiannu Plas Bodfa. Bydd yr arddangosfa ymdrwythol yn bodoli mewn gofod ffuglennol a ffeithiol, y gwirionedd a’r dychmygol, ddoe a heddiw.
More about the show : plasbodfa.com/bodfa-continuum