As you scroll down, you’ll find a series of 'visual think-throughs' - books and collected imagery that offer provisional spaces where emerging ideas can surface, take shape, and settle into form.
leaning on the landscape
Over the past eighteen months, I’ve been moving through three green spaces in West London, leading walking workshops with Imperial Health Charity for people in cardiac rehabilitation. Together, we’ve lingered over what we see, shared our observations, and listened, sometimes with ecologists, sometimes with other community groups or ‘friends of’ spaces, allowing social histories, memories, and small speculative imaginings to mingle with our sense of the spaces.
This way of noticing has shaped how I move beyond the workshops, on solo walks, in community gardens, anywhere I find myself outside. The book grew out of this practice, becoming a kind of ‘visual think-through’, a way of wandering through space and attending to the edges and textures.
In the workshops, we sometimes play with the names of things, letting them reflect a memory, a feeling, or what they remind us of, rather than simply labeling them. The rather loose numbered ‘catalogue’ on the final page of the book brings this workshop practice into the publication, offering a space where names are flexible and shaped by shared experience. My favourite at the moment is ‘folded hug’
105x295mm Evercolour Pale Yellow 80gsm inner pages and GF Smith Harvest 125gsm cover
Staple Bound / Riso Printed by the lovely folks at @pagemasters.co
Working with the fold and the unfold in reference material of current interest.
The Seed from the Stem
The Seed from the Stem unfolds five days of learning to thatch, captured through the gestures of hands in motion. Both visual diary and homage to instructional photography, it situates the experience within the process of thatching, where the exchange of embodied knowledge and collective making becomes central, each step depending on the one before for the work to hold.
295 x160mm / Metal Clasp /Ed 20
The Circle Makers
Growing up alongside vast wheat fields in Dorset my childhood was spent holding a fascinating curiosity with crop circles. Equal parts awe and fear, the shapes and formations played on my mind and often stopped me from following some countryside footpaths.
Taking imagery from various ephemera, guidebooks, and early 2000s news exchanges, the spreads invite new readings, to situate these formations, often dismissed as hoaxes or curiosities as deliberate artistic interventions.
148 x 210mm / Staple Bound /Ed 20