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.”
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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.”
Traces from the Technosphere. Walking the track.
Circular Walk 2019 screen print. Liz Clifford. This is the starting point for the various strands of my current work. A circular walk I’ve been making almost daily for 24 years. In the screen print below, the orange line represents the trace of the walk across the contours of the landscape. That landscape is in theContinue reading “Traces from the Technosphere. Walking the track.”
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.”
Plastic finds on the Byway.
I’ve started recording where I find the plastic fragments used in my work with a simple photograph on my phone. The location and date is logged. An objective record akin to forensic evidence. However, I can’t help myself making an aesthetic choice. I’m drawn to the jewel like quality of colourful vehicle reflectors pressed intoContinue reading “Plastic finds on the Byway.”
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