Category: Artwork
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Working the Surface
Brown earth as canvas/paper, framed edged by green grass, crouching, bending, intent figure, drawing tools, fork, trowel, bulb planter, scratching, digging into earth surface, measuring and judging distances, carving space, planting seed action, scraping, covering, flattening earth disturbance, worm casts, avoiding worm harm, leaving seeds in ground, walking away, later watching magpies from the window…
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Planting Day One
Yesterday the turf was removed from my allotment space at MERL (Museum of English Rural Life). The space is 270cms x 470cms, which in traditional allotment terms is actually very small. The recent surge of interest in allotments and growing ones own vegetables has prompted many allotments to be made into smaller plots to accommodate…