Symbolic Video of Afon Taf

Despite having walked along the Afon Taf many times, I hadn’t noticed the amount of debris and rubbish along the river banks before.

I started to see structure in the natural elements i.e the wood and man-made clusters. I’ve tried to capture this in my video.

My initial idea was to create a pretty representation of these forms in a model, out of wood. However after coming across the poem ‘Afon Taf’ by T. Arfon Williams I felt that the words resonated with what I wanted to say.

Despite the rivers beauty, there’s still an ugliness to the Taf. Not only does the poem talk about the debris in the river but also the connection the Afon Taf has with our language and the people.