I want to tell you about “Tree Fall”. I made this little film almost directly after the clearing up that followed the floods in Cumbria in 2015. It follows the dismemberment of a tree that had fallen into the River Bela that runs through Heron Corn Mill where I work at the moment. I became entranced by the image of …
Saints, Bones and Body Parts
This image does not come from Cumbria, it comes from Norfolk and is in the grounds of Gressenhall Workhouse, not too far from the location of the paupers’ unmarked graves in the apple orchard there. The Resting Place of the Disappeared I have been studying the lives of the saints this week whilst at the mill in Cumbria and …
Up the Road to Heron Corn Mill
Working at Heron Corn Mill requires a journey along a short stretch of the M6 between Preston and the Carnforth/Morecambe turn off. This usually straightforward section follows a long and sometimes frustrating stretch along the A59 between Southport and Preston. I have been thinking about roads, rivers, pathways and junctures and the swell of cross-river – where the water …
Pathway Two
From the main road along the other side of the stagnant bit of river towards the carpark [acx_slideshow name=”Pathway Two”]