Lost to the Sea

This zine inspired by a 18th century Welsh tale of a mermaid who warned a fisherman about a storm. It was set in St Dogmael's, Pembrokeshire and on checking the local archival records I found that there was in fact a storm that killed many sailors at roughly same time. The content of the zine then began to focus on these lost sailors and the idea of all the men and man made objects lost to the sea. Sea glass became a symbol of these losses and so I recreated the grave stones from St Dogmael's churchyard as if they were made of sea glass worn down by the sea. The writing on the gravestones was mostly taken from the graves themselves or from the archival records.