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Ode to Oak 2024

Into the studio I brought fallen branches that had lichen or other interesting patterns or growth on them. I removed the leaf portions leaving them sorted in piles according to colours; during the last week strung them together, making a 2.5 m column that I suspended from an existing length of fishing line. A few days before leaving, I brought it outside after scouting the area close to the living pods finding a perfect branch from which to tie it. It gently touched the ground so as not to be completely blown away resulting in a gentle dance between solid tree and land.

 

 

 

 

Grass Globes 2018-2019

Grass Globes | September 2018 – March 2019
Marlborough College Artist in Residence garden

Seed idea, September, Lockridge Common

 

One afternoon in September, when the grass was freshly cut, and after I had played with the grass at Lockridge Common, I made thirty-three globe shapes, placing each one on a patio stone. I documented them over a six month period, watching them breakdown, becoming muddy and sloppy. In the spring I gathered what was left to gleefully discover that they had made a permanent ‘clean’ mark on the stones.