A Year at River Cong

A Year at River Cong is a site-rooted extension of my LifeWays practice: a slow, attentive journey through a single landscape as it shifts and changes across the seasons.

For twelve months I will trace the LifeWays of River Cong.

I will listen to its rhythms, sketch its textures and explore changing colours as I witness the different ways light, weather, movement and memory gather along its banks.

A year of living with the river’s stories

The work emerging from this practice (photography, moving image, poetic prose) focuses on reflection: the river as a moving mirror in which trees and sky are refracted through movement and colour.

Working at dawn, in seasonal light, and at dusk, I am drawn to transitional moments when forms loosen and boundaries soften, when the surface begins to disclose layered traces of memory otherwise unseen. Reflection becomes both image and interruption.

Alongside this practice, I spend time listening to the wider life of the river: its ecological health, its histories, and the people who live in relationship with it. Through conversations, local knowledge and sustained observation, this work explores how human experience settles into place and reveals itself within the natural world.

If you live near the River Cong and would like to share stories, knowledge or reflections, I would love to hear from you: anna7king@gmail.com