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Fragment
I've spent the last day or so working on a new composition which will form part of an art installation
Verdun
On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,
John Malchair 1770
The following is a drawing made by John Malchair showing the causeway of what is now Abingdon Road. The rather
Writing Shadows
On Tuesday I made my way to Shotover to work on a piece I've been thinking about for quite some
Two Worlds
I was thinking about the post World War I landscape and how the years after 1918 saw a surge in
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
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
Completed Map
Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a
Magdalen Bridge c.1772
The image below is a drawing of Magdalen Bridge made around 1772 by the German artist John Malchair. Following the
Beneath the floor
I've always found it amazing, when, on a programme like Time Team, an apparently empty field is shown to have
Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 4 & 5
Original Version Version 1 Version 2For more information on this project, please click here.
Parisian Cemeteries
Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,
Proxies
Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and
Lamenting Trees
'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one
Mediaeval Pottery
As part of a future project I have been loaned two fragments of mediaeval pottery by the Museum resource Centre
Ieper (Ypres)
The following text can be found on my website under Places. Click here for more on Ieper."I should like us
The Material World
"What, then, is this material world? Of what does it consist?"So asks Tim Ingold, in his book, Being Alive, Essays
Fragment: GPS to Midi
I've been looking for a way of converting GPS data to midi as part of a project based on a
A Humument
In January this year, I used words from two seemingly unrelated books to create an installation in Shotover Country Park
‘Missded’ 2
Second piece showing original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.
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
The Keening Landscape
I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his
Goethean Observation: Compost Heap
The compost heap is some eight feet in circumference and about three feet high at its highest point. It comprises
Heavy Water Sleep (Paintings) III
I worked again tonight on the studies for Heavy Water Sleep, working in landscape elements such as trees and sky.
Day 7
I decided to do a walk today, one which I would record in single words or very short phrases. I
Silence as Other
The past is silent. To know the past, one must know silence. The theme of silence has come up a
Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 14 & 15
Original PagesVersion 1Version 2
The Somme
“Frontiers are lines. Millions of men are dead because of these lines.” Georges PerecThe name Somme is, in the minds
Heavy Water Sleep (Textwork) I
This afternoon I've been working on a new approach to my Heavy Water Sleep series. I've always loved the aesthetic
Quotes from ‘Trees’
Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists