Intervention. Byway 745

In July 2019 I started an intervention in the landscape in the form of cairn building with plastic detritus found on a small area of sunken lane used by recreational vehicles and walkers. Rather than always selecting pieces to work with in the studio, I decided to work on site with material that is either too big to lug home or gets overlooked for other reasons. As these piles of rubbish grew and changed, I recorded them photographically observing the elements having a dispersing effect. Gravity in league with wind and rain pulls the pieces downhill, redistributing them along the way. There was a fascinating liveliness emerging where one didn't expect to find it. I also made video footage of finding the detritus and posted my observations monthly on my blog at https://lizcliffordart.wordpress.com Over the ten months from July 2019 to May 2020 the project has evolved to include a video "Traces of the Technosphere", and a sculpture and site-specific intervention, "Becoming Geology". These developments have all been documented on my blog. https://lizcliffordart.wordpress.com