The work here is shown in the sequence of the box's
time with each artist. As it is an ongoing project, images will be
added over time.
Karen D'Amico
Anticipation
Hopes and dreams, previously hidden and never uttered, began to spill forth into the darkness.
Melancholy
Memories were all that remained. Home was no longer a place of physical return.
Ivan Pope
Daniel Wallis
Daniel's work with the Travellers Secret Box has evolved into an ongoing weblog which can be viewed by clicking here.
Marjan Hossienpour
Sarah Kent
Hearth
Harbour
Sea
"How we enjoyed ourselves in those far away days! Those were the happy
days and there was neither sin nor sorrow in the world for us. But the
clearances came upon us, destroying all... turning our joy to misery,
our gladness into bitterness,
our blessing into blasphemy... Oh, dear
man, the tears come on my eyes when I think of all we suffered, and the
sorrows, hardships and oppressions we came through." - Peigidh nic Cormaig
Through the early years of the nineteenth century, in the Highland
county of Sutherland, a large percentage of the population were removed
from their homes by government agents to make way for a new population
of sheep. A grand
scheme of large scale food production took precedence
over basic human rights as people were literally burned out of their
houses and forced to leave a way of life that had sustained them over
generations. Many were transported
overseas to Canada and North America
enduring the hardships of a treacherous transatlantic voyage. Even
those who chose to stay behind were forced to rebuild their homes and
lives with few resources and no meaningful compensation
for their loss.
Two hundred years later echos of the Sutherland clearances are still
heard in the displacement of communities where mass production is
favored over sustainability.
