Standing at the Edge of Things: Beginning Space Loch
There’s a particular kind of silence that appears when you realise you’re at the beginning of something.
A soft, resonant pause – not empty, but full of possibility, like the air just before a launch or the stillness of a loch before it decides what to reflect.
That’s the silence I’ve been sitting in while developing Space Loch.
I’m fresh out of art school, camera still warm from years of experiments, and for the first time the world ahead of me feels both enormous and strangely reachable. Scotland has always felt like a threshold: land that’s ancient, weather that’s alive, skies that behave as if they’re harbouring distant futures. And now, with the Scottish space sector emerging piece by piece with launch sites, aerospace research, engineers reshaping the horizon, the threshold feels even sharper.
Why Space Loch? Space to invoke the excitement of space exploration, the vastness of space the unseen and the discovery of the unknown. Loch to highlight the Scottish origins and to symbolise calmness, depth and reflection.
Where the window to the heavens and the loch meet.
A mirror between worlds.