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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

Heavy Water Sleep: Pages 6 & 7
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Trees Triptych No.2
Another triptych comprising photographs taken on Sunday at Shotover.

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

Prison Hulk – York
Following his conviction at the Berkshire Assizes on 15th April 1828, Stephen Hedges was sent to Portsmouth to serve time

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

Day 10
Finished priming the canvas and then painted a layer of Paynes Grey on top. Over this I'll rub some white

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

‘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

Past and Present Postcard
The image below is the last in a series I've made using both an original World War One postcard and

Heavy Water Sleep (Paintings)
I've started work on a new series of paintings based on the Heavy Water Sleep work I've been doing over

Proxies
Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and
Undermined
During Walk No.4 I discovered a sign entitled 'Undermined' about the coal industry in Newcastle. Given the importance of coal

Shadows 3
I was looking at something recently which made me think of the work I've been exploring around the backdrops used

A Walk in Shotover Wood
On what was a beautiful Autumn day, I took a walk to Shotover wood to take some photos of trees.

The Lawn and the Woods
I remember as a small boy how my Nana would on occasion take me and my older brother to where

Back to my First School
Today, my brother Simon and I took a trip down memory lane and visited New Marston First School which had

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

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

Completed Map
Today, on a walk around Oxford, I completed my first text map which I began in Ampney Crucis about a
Wordsworth and The Other
On my journey back from Nottingham yesterday, I listened to a podcast of In Our Time about William Wordsworth's The

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
Stories
In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive

Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
On the first day of this month, I travelled to Paris on Eurostar and met my girlfriend Monika at the

Morning Has Broken
Following on from my last post, I've now completed all the tokens along with another piece comprising some of them

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

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

Arriving in Port Jackson
On 28th October 1828, the Marquis of Hastings sailed into Port Jackson after a 4 month journey from Portsmouth, England.

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