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Three Little Words
Iris created a treasure hunt for me and Eliot; a trail of post-it notes stuck around the flat, each containing a clue as
Hidden. Ignored. Denied.
In a session today on my MA in Social Sculpture, we considered the following three words: Hidden, Ignored, Denied. What

John Malchair 1770
The following is a drawing made by John Malchair showing the causeway of what is now Abingdon Road. The rather
Diaries, Lists and Haiku
Last night I watched Chris Marker's film 'Sans Soleil' or 'Sunless', and having watched it, downloaded the text from the

Lead Walk – Maps
On the trail of my ancestor Stephen Hedges (my great, great, great, great uncle) I wanted to walk the route

Highgate Cemetery
I'd known about Highgate cemetery, principally as the last resting place of Karl Marx, but this was the first time

‘Missded’ 1, stitched
The stitched versions of my son’s drawings are objects which, in contrast to the quickly made drawings on which they're
Day 11
I've been looking at my work so far and have started to think about what I will have to show

The Voyage of The Marquis of Hastings
After my research in the National Archives, I took the document I'd discovered (the Surgeon's Journal from teh voyage of

Reading Roads
IntroductionIn Wales in 2008 I walked a path along which my great grandfather had walked every day from his home
Bartlemas Chapel Observation
Taken from Artefact - a website concerning Contemporary Art and Archaeology. I'm making this initial visit to the chapel a

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

Stephen Hedges (1811-1885)
I discovered Stephen Hedges about a year ago whilst researching my great-great-great-grandfather Richard Hedges (1808-1882). The two of them were

The Geographer
A still from some video footage of me in Australia, drawing out a map of one of the walks I

Heavy Water Sleep (Poem)
I wouldn't really call this a poem, but poem is the best word I can think of to describe what

‘Missded’ 2 – Tokens
Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below.

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.
Belzec Video: Snow 5
The same idea as before applied to footage of trees at Belzec. The number of squares used is the same

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

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

The Place That’s Always There (Trees)
A new piece for the exhibition in June.

Repaired Sail of HMS York (1828)
Yesterday, I finally finished stitching together the canvas pieces for a workI have tentatively called Repaired Sail of HMS York
Lists and Bill Viola
Whilst writing up some notes on making lists as a strategy, I thought again of the Bill Viola quote I

Mediaeval Pottery
As part of a future project I have been loaned two fragments of mediaeval pottery by the Museum resource Centre
Magdalen Bridge 2010
Although the present bridge is not that over which the enigmatic stranger crossed, it nonetheless marks the line he travelled

‘Missded’ 2
Second piece showing original drawing, tracing and template drawn onto canvas.

Beneath the floor
I've always found it amazing, when, on a programme like Time Team, an apparently empty field is shown to have

‘Missded’ 1 – A Framed Token
When one of the ‘tokens’ is put in a frame, it becomes a thing in its own right; a fragment still, but

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

The Gone Forest
Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see 'Writing Shadows') and finally, this weekend, I had