HD video, stereo sound, 7 minutes 17 seconds (2019)

Buddleia plants growing through cracked asphalt press against a window. Insects, birds and animals pass by. Light through glass. An impressionistic portrait of a window.

My home was a classroom block in the corner of an old school playground. Over the years, the playground was reclaimed: a forest of buddleia took root, moss obscured the asphalt and clouds of herb robert spilled from gaps in the concrete. Populated by self-seeding plants, groups of birds, visiting cats, foxes, a wide variety of insects and a solitary bat, the playground became a fragment of ‘unofficial countryside’.

Exhibited as part of ‘Fantastic Properties’, at the Crypt Gallery, Euston, 2019.

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