These ink drawings were made for Sharing Not Hoarding, a public space run by Nomas Projects at Slessor gardens in Dundee.
They take a view of that city from across the River Tay and step that view back through time to show the different geological processes that sculpted the land on which Dundee sits.
We begin in the present day, passing through the height of Dundee’s industry and back to the first people to settle in this land. We then see the advance and retreat of glaciers and the vast silty rivers wearing down the tall mountains that the Cairngorms once would have been. Then we see the volcanic land that created so many of the features we recognise in Scotland today and, at the last, a distant continent advances over the now extinct Iapetus Ocean, heralding the great mountain building event of the Caledonian Orogeny.
