2025,  (Ongoing) Hand Plough: to cut, to turn, to prepare for renewal
Dorset, England

Aeon
Steel plough mouldboard, flint and soil

Equilibrium
Wood and flint

On the floor, Aeon presents a plough mouldboard resting between two large flint balls, balanced as if in mid-turn. Around it, a circle of soil suggests a 360° rotation—the tool of agriculture reimagined not for cutting straight furrows, but for tracing infinite return. The flint recalls the deep time of the land; a fossilised sponge head holding the weight of steel and labour.

On the wall, Equilibrium sets a wedge of wood, shaped like an axehead, holding five more flint balls. Equilibrium imagines rotation in another plane, the flint lifted into suspension. Where Aeon is heavy and grounded—the flint supporting the metal—Equilibrium is lighter, speculative: a tool transformed into a pivot for balance and play.

Together, these works trace a continuity of time and materials—from flint and wood to steel and straw—highlighting how transformation persists across both human action and the cycles of the land.

Hand Plough
Soil and straw

Outside, Hand Plough extends my exploration of everyday and locally available materials into the land itself. On the fields, I pull out the remaining straw stubble left after harvest, turning it over by hand. Slowly, this act inscribes a circle into the ground. The gesture is repetitive and physical, carrying symbolic weight: to cut, to turn, to prepare for renewal. 

This reconsiders farming as rhythm, ritual, and memory. It reflects on what circulates freely: effort, time, growth, connection, and the materials at hand. Over time, the circle will shift with weather and decay, an ongoing work shaped by the cycles of the field itself.

Drawings
Pencil on paper

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