With access to the GGR- Demonstrator site datasets gathered from the treatments, measurements, and interventions conducted across 32 plots (20m x 20m each) on the degraded peatland at Pwllpieran, I have made A Boggy Gassy Drawing– ink on paper 161 x 106 cm.
In this drawing I am writing the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) readings, from May 2023 and May 2024. The CO2 and CH4 datasets in May 2023 have 29,244 readings each, all 6 digits, so 350,928 digits approx. The CO2 and CH4 datasets in May 2024 have 17,702 readings each, also 6 digits, so 212,424 digits approx.
I have access to 17 datasets made between May 2023 to October 2024, sadly nothing more up to date. Each dataset includes multiple readings – 150 across 3 minute periods for each collar at each level of shading (sometimes 0, sometimes 30, sometimes 90 – where the scientists put a cloth over the top of the plastic chamber which covers the treated peat). All of the 6 digit readings are in parts per million.
So, another endurance exercise, another durational, site-responsive, slow, and meditative process….
The drawings shift their attention from human-centred narratives to layered temporalities shaped by environmental processes, data, and multispecies relations. The drawing and its making becomes a medium for attuning to the deep time of ecosystems, placing time not only at the centre, but as a material in itself.
