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.”
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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 