Footage shot during lockdown shows friends on a derelict stretch of tarmac at different times. Outshift left a small hidden tripod and marked the tarmac so that participants could film themselves from the same vantage point and height. Viewing the footage within the portal on the same ground, now overgrown six years later, 16 year-old Ella Charleton ‘hugs’ her 10 year-old self as she goes past and watches the now encroaching brambles momentarily disappear under her virtual feet.

Image above and left show documentary footage of Ella Charlton (reading a book) and Chloe Martins (lying down) within the portal photographed against the same location six years later, Polly Charlton looking through the portal device with Ella Charleton in the background (middle), and Ella at the back of the Flat Ground from the portal vantage point (right). Lockdown footage shot by Marco Martins and edited by Rachel Henson.


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