Land of my Father

Caroline Fraser Arps

My most recent project is a very personal one about the death of my father. It happened upon me in a rather roundabout way. My father died suddenly when I was a child, and for a many years I have tried to put this in the past and move on.

In 2014 I popped up to Scotland for my annual photographic pilgrimage. I like to get there once a year for a dose of mountains, landscape and photography. I spent a week alone in Ardnamurchan and Glencoe.

rained. It poured.”

Roads were flooded and inaccessible.

I ended up sheltering in a church taking photographs of rain dripping onto the floor of the interior.