Apparent North | Helen Mort

Apparently
you’re here.

The stone horse
buttresses,

the flat-cap strata
of the rock.

Apparently
you move.

Apparently
the world holds still
and lets you on.

The first stage in a new collaboration between Helen Mort and Paul Evans focusing on Stanage (from ‘stone edge’), a gritstone escarpment in the Peak District; the northern part of the edge forms the border between the High Peak of Derbyshire and Sheffield. Click on the ‘Play’ button below to listen to an edited discussion about the collaboration (recorded in Evans’ Sheffield studio on 23 October 2013).