Bug at Flamborough Cliffs, Yorkshire, 2024

E-Zine for The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside at The Centre for Hate Studies & School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester

A composite of transparent maps of walking routes and migration routes: Kinghorn, Scotland, Cleveland Way, England, New York, USA to Manila, Philippines, and Baltimore, USA to Manchester, UK.

In 2024, I was asked to contribute a work to for The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside at The Centre for Hate Studies & School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester as a Community Research Partner. The result was a series of field recordings, rambling thoughts, a video collage, an electronically manipulated piano composition, culmnating in the poetic treasure of Louisa Adjoa Parker.

Rather than focusing on the feelings of being othered, this short film is to offer how nature is a global elixir, revealing curative properties beyond the social and even further into feelings of ancestral belonging. The images and sounds are to be seen as a mood board for the short piece, a piece that I hope evokes feelings of in-between, tension, and redefining belonging for humans making multiple home(s).

Sounds and Images captured/composed by Marlo De Lara. Created for The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside in 2024. Featuring a reading of 'Land Real and Imagined' by the poet herself Louisa Adjoa Parker for the Out of Bounds in 2016. The poem is from her collection How to Wear a Skin (2019) published by Indigo Books.