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For the Tributaries Project Pilgrims’

                                                                                        Exhibition, Heather selected six of her
                                                                                        photographs to mount and display in

                                                                                        the intimate setting of a cabinet. Even
                                                                                        the structures of the abandoned

                                                                                        cottage and the austere lighthouse,
                                                                                        set against the deep blue sky, and

                                                                                        indeed the strangely (mis)placed
                                                                                        bone-structure of a sheep’s skull

                                                                                        contribute to the overall mood of
                                                                                        internalisation and stasis from which
                                                                                        the “deep seeing” of aesthetic

                                                                                        contemplation works its magic. Along
                                                                                        with “Lily with Water Drops,” and

                                                                                        “Pebbles” (discussed above), the
                                                                                        paradoxical “water pool” that comes

                                                                                        across as a bed of pebbles, show
                                                                                        aspects or moments of Heather’s

                                                                                        reflective encounters with water.










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