Stratum is an audio-visual installation exploring the relationship between landscape and the industries that shape it. The work focuses on North Nottinghamshire, drawing on Rebecca’s connection to the local coalfields and looking at how extraction and energy production have physically altered the land over time.
It responds to a moment of transition in the region, following the closure of Thoresby Colliery and the emergence of new forms of extraction, including exploratory fracking around Sherwood Forest. These shifts form the context for the work, grounding it in a specific place and point in time.

The installation uses projection and light to build a sequence of abstract, geometric forms that reference layers within the land - cut, fractured and reconfigured. Colour, intensity and digital interference move between more organic structures and sharper, constructed systems, creating a visual language that sits between natural processes and human intervention.

Sound is built from field recordings captured in Nottinghamshire, combined with a score by Jimmy Power. These elements are layered into a spatial composition where low-frequency movement, environmental textures and processed sound sit alongside more synthetic tones.

Stratum brings these elements together as a spatial environment, using light and sound to consider how landscapes are shaped, used and redefined over time.