Over the past year I have been working on a series of small assemblages made from plastic waste collected during my daily walk in the Hampshire countryside. These ‘bouquets’ and ‘floral tributes’ were started during my residency at Chapel Arts Studios, discussed in my previous post. The experience of the daily drive on busy AContinue reading “Memorials to lost trees.”
Category Archives: Intervention
Intervention: Becoming Geology.
Byway 745 with intervention. Photograph by Liz Clifford. Since my excursion in May to collect up rubbish collected over 10 months on this ancient Byway, I have resolved a piece of work that encases the collection within a gabion basket structure. The work consists of four 40cm cubes, three of which are full of theContinue reading “Intervention: Becoming Geology.”
Intervention: The Lockdown Effect.
In late April and early May seedlings took root on the muddy track, where normally they would have been mown down by recreational vehicles. Along with what seemed like a more-vigorous-than-normal onset of Spring, these little plants appeared to be benefitting from the lockdown against Covid-19. However, it soon became apparent that drought, along withContinue reading “Intervention: The Lockdown Effect.”
Intervention: Fieldwork.
I’ve been building on my site specific project with found detritus as presented in my blogpost of January 4th. The latest intervention has involved taking hand built gabion baskets into the landscape and filling them with detritus from the two Rubbish Cairns I have been monitoring on Byway 745 since last summer. Whilst lockdown againstContinue reading “Intervention: Fieldwork.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.
Throughout the Autumn I have continued adding to the collections of plastic waste as I walk on Byway 745 – the Rubbish Cairns I started building in August 2019. Torrential rain has scoured the chalk ruts which are repeatedly attacked by off-road vehicles. Churned up mud and fallen leaves then re-cover the chalk. Detritus isContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.
Here is an update from the Byway cairns project. It’s a month on since my last post charting the growth of these collections of salvaged detritus. Autumn is setting in, so leaves have been adding themselves to the cairns, alongside the collected waste. I have been reading Jane Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter” in which she arguesContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns, Byway 745.
To get round the problem of being too selective with what objects are worthy of taking back to the studio, I’ve decide to work with collecting on site. Since August I have been picking up every piece of plastic waste I find on the Byway and have made 4 distinct piles to the side ofContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns, Byway 745.”
Liz Clifford 