Notes
Topic: Place
Early in the spring and delightfully out of the blue, designer Alexander Mackison messaged to ask if I’d be interested in taking up the first artist residency at his family home in a tiny riverside village in southeast Cornwall.
A Friday commune with Paul Nash
Can't get enough of this May.
Spring is another country
I like to pretend I accept the ambivalence of landscape but really I expect some subjectivity from it. I want its blessing, its confirmations, it’s healing powers. I want the right configuration of hedges, trees just so.
Barn Wood is full of wood anemones, a patchy blanket of expectant white faces pointed towards any break in the forest canopy.
On the shore that first day were ocean-pocked plastic buoys, steel oil drums, nylon rope, hemp rope. A toilet seat.
A two day trip east at the tail of last year to Suffolk and Norfolk
Dust doesn’t settle here but thickens the air like cornflour.
A Severnland circular
I spent the last afternoon in November walking around and around Wells Cathedral.
November visit to Worcester cathedral
Places as the interaction between the physical and the soulful
The small car park at the start of the Ridgeway is half full of camper vans. No one is stirring at 6:45am and there are no other walkers when I bounce the car over the uneven surface of the car park, grab my camera and start up the ancient track.
Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade's house in Gloucestershire and Gloucester Cathedral.