MOONSCAPE

CORNWALL, UK, 2025

Bodmin Moor is a vast landscape. In winter months, it lives up to its eerie and desolate persona. The moor is steeped in folklore and legends. You always check behind you in case the Beast of Bodmin Moor is stalking you or the ghost of Charlotte Dymond is watching you on a boulder.

Although I never encountered a large cat or a Victorian ghost, Bodmin's barren presence was felt as I trecked Rough Tor and Brown Willy, Cornwall's highest peaks. 

I wanted to encapsulate its empty, desolate demeanour. When filming in landscape, I always capture a representation of how I feel. At Bodmin, it was a feeling of disorientation. 

When I first arrived, it was far too hazy. Sharp shots were hard to get. After persevering and climbing both peaks, the haze began to melt. Exposing a clear horizon line. 

Bodmin Moor should be Bodmin Forest. The area was a city of trees populated by wolves, bears, cave lions, hyenas and lynx before human intervention. It's lost that character. Now gaining a dramatic but empty personality. I wanted to mirror this emptiness in my art. Showing as much of the sky encapsulates this. Once I returned home, I had to convince myself I hadn't gatecrashed a moon landing. 

"ONCE I RETURNED HOME, I HAD TO CONVINCE MYSELF I HADN'T GATE-CRASHED A MOON LANDING.

–JACOB J. WATSON-HOWLAND

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