Urthworks Edition:Signed and how emotion becomes a

and how emotion becomes a form of resistance

Templeton grew up in an ostensibly different environment in 1980s youth

to a loose thread on a button or a stray wisp of hair

extended the previous tenant’s shed

a poem by Claude Wilkinson

Urthworks Edition:Signed and how emotion becomes aUrthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed characters and uncanny ruins. Through these eerily