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John Gwynn’s Survey 1772 – Pt 2
Whilst looking through some old research I did a few years ago, I came across the drawing reproduced below of

Walking Meditation 1
Blenheim Palace Park I discovered this walk with my children at the weekend and so I returned today to do
Empathy and the First World War (Part 2)
This image was taken almost a year after the end of the First World War, on August 27th 1919 and

‘Missded’ 3
I've finally completed another of the stitched works - "'Missded' 3". Below is the original drawing made by me and

Landscape DNA: The Simultaneity of Stories-So-Far
The Past is Time without a ticking clock. A place where paths and roads are measured in years. The Present

Fragments and Additions
I've always been interested in the idea of fragments of the past and how, mentally, we add to them in

Trees Triptych
A triptych comprising photographs taken at Shotover on Sunday.

Hafodyrynys
A few months ago when I interviewed my Grandmother about her childhood, she talked about the mountain around which she'd

The Gate
The project I am working on for the Travel and Trauma (Dark Tourism) conference (11-12th April) is now - in

The Keening Landscape
I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his

John Gwynn’s Survey 1772
Remarkable evidence of those who lived in Oxford around the time the notice appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal can be
Undermined
During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled 'Undermined' about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal

Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 6 & 7
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The Past in Pastoral
July 1st 2016 will mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous Somme offensive. Having already made a lot of work

The Somme
“Frontiers are lines. Millions of men are dead because of these lines.” Georges PerecThe name Somme is, in the minds

Connections
Two images from two separate projects: Heavy Water Sleep (top) and Fragment (below).
Stories
In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive

Parisian Cemeteries
Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,

Chinese Landscape Painting
I've never before considered myself a fan of Chinese art but there have been times (most recently in the British

Completed Map
Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a

Trees and Other Projects
I have been photographing the same trees - shown above - for almost 18 months now, and what started as

Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 12 & 13
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Convict Trail II
This afternoon I visited the library and found a map of Radley and its surrounds dating from 1811; 17 years

Maps and Ivory Gurney
On the bus into work this morning I read the following in Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places.' "Woods and forests

Reading Roads
IntroductionIn Wales in 2008 I walked a path along which my great grandfather had walked every day from his home

‘Missded’ 4
I've finally finished stitching the fourth in the 'Missded' series of stitched works which I began some time ago. The

More Little Words
Leading on from my last post about my son's scribbled post-it notes, I looked again at the tracings I made
Roads by Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favourite gods.Roads go on While we forget, and

The Material World
"What, then, is this material world? Of what does it consist?"So asks Tim Ingold, in his book, Being Alive, Essays

Empathy/Exchange: 668 grams
This follows on from my last post - Goethean Observation: Pilgrims of the Wild, 1935. I made this observation after