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Bartlemas Chapel Observation
Taken from Artefact - a website concerning Contemporary Art and Archaeology. I'm making this initial visit to the chapel a

Empathy and the First World War (Part 5)
The backgrounds of these postcards have become of great interest to me in as far as they help elicit a
Hidden. Ignored. Denied.
In a session today on my MA in Social Sculpture, we considered the following three words: Hidden, Ignored, Denied. What

Moments
Following on from the completion of my text map (which I'm thinking of as a map of an individual rather

‘Missded’ 3
The latest in a series of works entitled 'Missded'. Photos below show original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.
Anne Frank’s Tree
With the work I've been doing on trees at the sites of death camps in Poland, I found the following

The Place That’s Always There (Trees)
A new piece for the exhibition in June.
Lamenting Trees
'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one
The Trial of Stephen Hedges 1828 in Morse Code
TranscriptBerkshire Easter Sessions Newbury 1815. H. Stockwell, J. Harper (not in custody,) and S. Hedges of Abingdon, were indicted for

Proxies
Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and
Paul Nash Quote
"Here in the back garden of the trenches it is amazingly beautiful - the mud is dried to a pinky

Cutting and Stitching II
I've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days with video work and with the sticthed map

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

To Name Him Would Almost Be To Kill Him
If you visit the Westgate Library in Oxford, and make your way to the second floor, to the centre for

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

Notebook
Every now and then when I'm working on something - a drawing, video, piece of writing - I find a

Empathy/Exchange: 668 grams
This follows on from my last post - Goethean Observation: Pilgrims of the Wild, 1935. I made this observation after
Stories
In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive

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

Map Work
I've almost completed my map of observations made during a number of walks over the past few weeks and am

Lines Drawn in Water
The following passage is taken from 'The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot' by Robert Macfarlane. In a chapter on

Trees
In his book, Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization, archaeologist Richard Hayman writes:"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters

Proposing Moments of Pastoral
Through my research on World War I, I've accumulated a large amount of data - postcards, quotes, maps, texts, photographs,

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

Somewhere Between Writing and Trees
Having recently bought and iPad Pro and pencil, I decided to start drawing in a style inspired to some extent
The First Line?
Reading Clive James' Poetry Notebook, I find myself a little better prepared to tackle the task of writing a poem;

A Backdrop to Eternity
Below is a typical, early 20th century studio portrait. The subject - a boy - sits on a prop. Behind

Ghosts of the Church of St. Clement
The old church of St. Clement, built around 1122 is a principal character in our story. It was described by

Leaf and Shard
Out of a small pile of earth, greyish-brown in colour, a piece of brightly glazed pottery appeared as I scraped

Heavy Water Sleep
Continuing from what I was discussing yesterday (see Humument), I decided to make a start on my own 'Humument' by