Experiment 3
The Lost Tour Guide
Referencing the outfits of English official city tour guides, Edwina created the Lost Tour Guide’s uniform of a blazer and A-line skirt using specially commissioned fabric printed with the Ordinance Survey map of the South-eastern area of The English Lakes.
Grizedale Forest was deliberately put on the back of the uniform, so despite its cuff buttons being miniature working compasses, neither would help the wearer navigate unless they took the jacket off. Effectively, the Lost Tour Guide could assist others in orientating themselves, but could not orientate herself without assistance from participants.
However, what exactly was lost? Was it the tour guide? Or was the tour guide offering a tour of something that is, or had become lost? In actuality, it was both. The experiment was intended to bridge the initial research into Grizedale as site/cultural context, and the ways that the forest has been mediated by both artists and audience; by creating conversations with Grizedale visitors to gauge their anxiety about thresholds to a forest and climate change.
Referencing the outfits of English official city tour guides, Edwina created the Lost Tour Guide’s uniform of a blazer and A-line skirt using specially commissioned fabric printed with the Ordinance Survey map of the South-eastern area of The English Lakes.
Grizedale Forest was deliberately put on the back of the uniform, so despite its cuff buttons being miniature working compasses, neither would help the wearer navigate unless they took the jacket off. Effectively, the Lost Tour Guide could assist others in orientating themselves, but could not orientate herself without assistance from participants.
However, what exactly was lost? Was it the tour guide? Or was the tour guide offering a tour of something that is, or had become lost? In actuality, it was both. The experiment was intended to bridge the initial research into Grizedale as site/cultural context, and the ways that the forest has been mediated by both artists and audience; by creating conversations with Grizedale visitors to gauge their anxiety about thresholds to a forest and climate change.