Projections

Projections is a photographic series taken at Mugdock Drowning Pond. The work examines women’s positions in society through a critical feminist lens, employing site-specific, narrative-driven, text-based interventions. Initially anchored in the Scottish witch trials—the victims of which are yet to receive justice—the project evolved into a wider commentary on the enduring oppression of women.

The Drowning Pond served as a symbolic stage, historically used as a threat; weaponising fear to enforce socially imposed gender roles. By projecting text into a landscape historically associated with the oppression of women, the work brings conversations about historical injustice—and its contemporary manifestations—into public space.