Cecil’s Captions
the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Rachel undertook a 16-day artist residency at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in August 2015, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Sheffield Hallam University.

During that time, Rachel worked in the archive, researching the original, water-damaged captions written by the founder Cecil Williamson. She re-typed the captions – copying the grammar, spelling and layout of the originals – and left them in the landscape, typed on rice paper, taking the museum into the environment. There were 30 captions in total, placed in Boscastle, Tintagel, St Nectan’s Glen, Bodmin and Roughtor.