The Dartmoor body

I spent the weekend in Dartmoor, working with a small group from a Body Weather background, a new experience for me but also found some crossover with the notion of immersing oneself in the landscape, I think I do this with site and language. We went to Wistmans Wood to do some work; an amazing place. Make sure you go and see it if you are travelling to Dartmoor, it has a silent energy, a small wood of stunted twisted oaks, remnants of an ancient woodland dating back to prehistoric times. I flet like I was entering into the underworld. By the way make sure you turn an item of clothing you are wearing inside out otherwise the pixies might get you. We have this need to think of the land, especially rural locations as untouched and wild, but the land is managed and constructed through human intervention. If you look on a map of Dartmoor many areas are named as forests but there are now no trees, a result of agriculture, open face tin mining and animal habitation a primary cause of the wholesale loss of woodland.

Participate in a collaborative action

I would love you to come on-board and send me some images, locations or texts of your plastic bag finds, actions or collections. This will not take much of your time, contribute your work to the site and carry out an action that makes a small difference some of the images can be seen at the corridors and cuttings sister link , please send to the following email address I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Flowers starting to appear

In 2005 I started to become interested in roads, lanes and motorways, triggered by an exhibition at OVADA in Oxford. Ideas started simmering and Corridors and Cuttings was born. Amongst the work was an action in which I made daisy chains on a roundabout. Why are roundabouts so tedious and boring and why do local councils always seem to think we need a piece of permanent public art in the middle of them, why not have more planting such as wild flowers or daffodils. Its early for Daffs but mine are appearing along with Snow drops and crocuses.

Exercise for today

take twenty blades of grass sew them together wear them as a necklace