{"id":183,"date":"2024-07-03T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/?p=183"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:50:17","slug":"going-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/2024\/07\/03\/going-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&#8220;There are to be seen \u2026 near this town \u2026 sundry artificial caves or holes in the earth, whereof some have ten, some fifteen and some twenty fathoms in depth\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186\" style=\"width: 4080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240509_131914492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4080\" height=\"3072\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Going Underground<\/em>, Sara Trillo, 2023. Displayed in the Museum of Imagined Kent, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sara Trillo\u2019s multimedia work, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going Underground<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, brings a version of a Kentish dene hole into the Museum of Imagined Kent. Dene holes are chalk pits of mysterious origins, dating back to medieval times. A narrow shaft would be dug, and then chambers would be carved out at the base of the hole to mine the chalk. These days, the holes are often sites where bats settle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" style=\"width: 4080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240509_131924258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4080\" height=\"3072\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of <em>Going Underground<\/em>, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The effect of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going Underground <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is as if you are looking down from the surface into one of these holes. For her piece, Trillo hand sewed compacted sheep wool to create the holes, and artefacts at the bottom such as bones and nails are ceramic, representing what might be found in the chalk chambers. The rope coming out of the hole represents the rope used to climb down, with the chalk-painted ceramic shape on the end representing the shapes of the bottom of the holes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" style=\"width: 4096px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240507_185708288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4096\" height=\"3072\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of <em>Going Underground<\/em>, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trillo ventured to the bottom of a dene hole for research for the project, and has since been working on a second perspective: looking up from the bottom of the hole. Her other works explore similar themes of the unknown in nature, using natural materials to illustrate this. The exhibition also features <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lomea<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, another work by Trillo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going Underground<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brings an element of mystery into our display on the Kent countryside, in a similar way to the display on Charles Dickens\u2019 Swiss Chalet. There is also a sense of immersion which is also found in the display of taxidermy and fossils, from the work being three-dimensional, and more interactive &#8211; giving a sense of being out in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Sara Trillo and her work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saratrillo.co.uk\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Kentish dene holes <a href=\"https:\/\/kurg.org.uk\/deneholes\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are to be seen \u2026 near this town \u2026 sundry artificial caves or holes in the earth, whereof some have ten, some fifteen and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/2024\/07\/03\/going-underground\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[294574],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}