Field Notes
2018 - 2022
Black and white photographs
Dimensions variable

The Field Notes project began in 2017 while I was researching for an exhibition entitled The Augury. The origins of that exhibition lay in my long term interest in J.A Baker’s book The Peregrine. Baker’s descriptions of his obsessive traversing of the landscape in repetitive patterns has profoundly influenced me. I share Baker’s fascination with tracking hawks and birds of prey and this has resulted in a habitual pursuit of walking, watching and recording. The book changed the way I experience the landscape, instilling in me a need to look up and to obsessively look for signs of presence. Geographically, the images in Field Notes are recorded in a variety of locations fluctuating between images of the landscape and fragmented images of birds - they are not specific to any one place, timeline or subject. They share only an interest in recording a series of observed signs and symbols. The vestiges of wildness found in pockets of landscape and in the markings that distinguish one species from another.