14/7 St.Margaret’s at Cliffe – was invited to explore a 2 acre garden which held the remnants of the homes of several generations of one family. Enjoyed photographing old pillars, a gun emplacement, and particularly some patches of concrete – of which there was plenty…. the views across yellow fields to the smouldering blue of the channel and over to Holland were just sumptuous. The area is rich with traces of the Second World War – a pillbox, traces of trenches and a fuel store.
Am becoming drawn to expanses of concrete and to flat empty-ish landscapes – common here in south east Kent and in Pas de Calais.
Off to Boulogne next week to continue my research and make work for St.Omer. Am looking forward to having time to collate and reflect on all the bits of video and photography I have collected and begin to construct some kind of narrative.
