100 molehills placed in the Bearpit, Bristol
routines
remake
shifting wild
secrecy encounter
temporary
territorial control
accumulation
edgelands
annoyance
minimalism earth
materiality
form disrupt
Into the edgelands to search for the mounds of soil.
Transforming the grass.
Looking for the residue that these solitary,
subterranean,
animals create.
They dig and shift the earth,
shaping and maintaining their precarious tunnels
making routes
and connections.
This process disrupts the landscape
temporarily.
The repetition of digging and moving of soil.
Just happening beneath
the
surface
in secrecy.
A concealed routine.
Encountered by humans as displaced,
ephemeral,
curious
mounds.
Wild readymades change the rural environment where
I walk and discover nature and it's ecosystems.
I think about their behaviour underneath me.
Their zonal world of order,
territories and boundaries.
These spatial interventions can cause
Chaos.
They are an annoyance.
They make people want to
control nature.
They must be
removed and
made to disappear.
Transport them elsewhere.
Select, carry, accumulate, relocate, remake, remodel and change.
Place them amongst the architecture,
the concrete, urban society
and relocate for good.
Take a look at artinbearpit.com for more photographs and writings about the project