This work is a response to a description of a measure of the Anthropocene, the period since the beginning of the twentieth century during which human activity has triggered irreversible change on Earth, outlined by geologist Jan Zalasiewicz in his lecture ‘Visualising the Anthropocene’. This was delivered as part of the Lovelock 100 conference atContinue reading “Cubic Measure”
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Byway 745 Observatory.
Byway 745 Observatory with direct drawing. I have recently started making daily drawings on a 10 metre section of Byway 745, deciding to home in on, rather than pass through, the space. To establish a kind of “observatory” examining the whole space from the trees at the top of the banks down into the chalkContinue reading “Byway 745 Observatory.”
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: 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.”
Liz Clifford 