Notice has been given that Hampshire County Council’s Countryside Access Team is going to ‘repair’ Byway 745. Only walkers and cyclists are allowed to use it until the work has been completed. To allow this to happen it has been closed by a barrier at either end. Over the past month I have witnessed aContinue reading “Limited Access.”
Tag Archives: Rosemary Shirley
Under(cover)
Debate around the politics of litter explored by Rosemary Shirley in her essay Keeping Britain Tidy: Litter and Anxiety 2016 have prompted me to take a closer look at my own reactions to what I find on my walk. My submission to the Instagram Open Call Under(cover) takes photographs of discarded tissues from the firstContinue reading “Under(cover)”
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.”