A VALORIZING OF THE CHANNELS 

A lack of the acknowledgment of the ‘dead alive’ (borrowing from Achille Mbembe) who have moved through spaces, has obliged me to investigate was of creating channels from the coast to Dover - valorising the channels that come from the Isle. I labour under the view that ‘nobody must be socially and legally invisible’. This is the basis of my landscape design project, which aims at reclaiming accessibility to land and restoring the natural phenomenon of mobility.  My design methodology  rests on the principles of necropolitics, which defines the social, economic and political world we live in today, where aspects of physical life are characterised by the ‘dead alive’, leading to unjust systems of power underpinning the issues of mortality. Dover was one of the slave ports supporting the triangular slave trade journey, where slave ships were serviced and salvaged. The land itself comes as witness. Objects from slave trade migrations buried at the base of the cliff marks history of site and movement that took place through the channel. Today, Dover is still  a site of migration, not through the slave trade but filled with new patterns still choosing to ignore the dead alive. My body of work interrogates internal histories of spaces along Dover, which history permeates to the earth’s story. In my work, Landscape is presented as witness that captures and traces movement and links each movement and links each movement to changes or formations that occurred on earth. The research undertaken focused more on spaces of oppression and trauma through the hostility created through drawn line, border or edge, and the intersection interrelationship of such spaces with the English Channel. 

A field studies ongoingly studies along the coastline, between Port Dover and St Margaret's bay. A beacon of bright cliffs as the entry to the isle, with a number of distinguishable landscapes. The landscapes current ecosystems shaped by the past and current colonial society are investigated in aims to reimagine and dismantle these defensive landscapes. All these landscapes have witnessed change and reform following the unfolding of the ever eroding and moving lands and waters.