TOTEm

It is a seemingly simple practice: to go out into the landscape and attempt to bring something of it back, be it words, images or memories.

I inevitably return with pockets filled with sheep's wool plucked from barbed wire fences, feathers, stones, and snails shells that have been emptied by hungry thrushes. But I’m also drawn to curious brightly coloured artificial objects that catch the eye - the ephemera of human presence.

These small objects are picked up and pocketed like treasures. In an attempt to hold on to something of these places I bring them together and make them into a totem to represent a particular place and my time within it.

(This work originally started as an online project made for SMBHmagazine)