This brook, the Gordale Beck, flows through the famous limestone ravine the Gordale Scar, northeast of Malham in North Yorkshire, England. After its passage through the gorge it ends a few miles downstream in the river Aire. The Gordale Scar has two waterfalls and overhanging limestone cliffs with a height of more than 100 meters. This scar was formed in the last ice age, by massive amounts of water from melting glaciers and a collapsed cave. The place strikes the imagination, and was often celebrated and recorded by artists such as painter William Turner or the poets William Wordsworth and Thomas Gray.The latter said he could stay at the utmost a quarter of an hour here, and 'not without shuddering’. For me this is going a little too far, although indeed we experienced it as a intriguing place when we stayed here overnight. When I started this work, it felt like we were overlooked back then, so I painted an eye in the sky.