Abigail Reynolds I Flux & Tre

Tre

In 2021 Kresen Kernow (‘Cornwall Centre’) commissioned the artist Abigail Reynolds to create a permanent piece to celebrate the temporary homecoming of a number of medieval manuscripts written in Cornish, and the idea of home.

Tre, Reynolds’s work for the library window, is built from a constellation of references that reaches back to the oldest Cornish texts that we have. The tree at the centre of her collage is at once a reference to symbology and ritual, to ecology and growth. It is an episodic tree, and this book is in episodes - a sequence of connected thoughts.

This book unpicks the threads of meaning woven into the window, and gathers together the voices of writers and academics, who share some of the many diverging stories and histories to be read in the Cornish landscape.

Flux

In 2019 the artist Abigail Reynolds set out to change a Cornish beach into glass. This book explores her process of glass-making using only the simple materials of seaweed and sand.