The drawings here were made over a two week stretch at Sweeney's Bothy during November 2022.
The intention was to create a 1:1 scale drawing of part of the Cleadale Cliffs which ring the West Coast of Eigg. Finding he couldn't get very close, Calum made the drawing by use of a very small viewfinder from about half a mile away.
Made using ground charcoal from the stove, the drawing was not fixed so that when it was hung from an overhang at Singing Sands beach it could be eroded by the Winter weather which lashed the island.
In the film you can see and hear the weather as it pulls the drawing apart and washes it into the sea.
The activity of making the drawing was also filmed. From this footage, a series of ink drawings was made, documenting the bodily activity of making the drawing and then hanging it from the beach.
In these works Calum hoped to create a journal not just of his activity during the residency, but of the maelstrom of weathering and erosion which take place where the land meets the sea.
