They Shall Not Rise Until Light Shines Upon Them

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Ultra-Limited Boxed Art Edition – 25 copies

A set of unique art prints and texts on finest Tintoretto Gesso art paper

containing 8 fine art digital images by Tracy Hill
A set of 18 text cards & photographs by Eijls
A collection of short incantations by Eijls

At once mythic and enigmatic, Doggerland exists as one of the most pristine, unexplored archaeological landscapes in the world. Since before the turn of the century, trawlers have been dredging ancient animal bones and artefacts from the heart of the North Sea, definitive evidence that suggested the existence of a lost land, submerged after the great thaw of the Ice Age.

They Shall Not Rise Until Light Shines Upon Them takes inspiration from this trail, and in a series of fragmentary poem-texts and incantations, invokes the lost landscape of Doggerland and the adjoining Fenlands of eastern England, its flora, and its fauna. It explores the potential of water veneration being central to some hitherto unknown Mesolithic religion, a remnant of the ancient rites and rituals of ancient Doggerlanders.

Artist , Tracy Hill presents here a stunning set of dark, numinous images that at once recall bathymetric scanning technology, and deep insight into the hidden territory of Doggerland