Feral Landscapes - Are the betwixed spaces of disturbance from industrial processes/capitalocene and mixed with non-human activitys.
Feral bullace gin-Bullace berries (like Sloes no thorns) foragaed from a mini scrubland that sits at the side of intensively farmed fields and a concrete apron where hay stores are wrapped in black plastic, the edges containing dumped metal agricultural machinery and old tyres. This pocket of land contains the largest crops of bullace berries in the area.
Living in the counrtyside is still haunted by the images of a green and plesant land -bucolic idyll of a landowning fantasy, The reality is a heavy industrialized area, worked by people on low wages and precarious seasonal work.
Lucky potato-Investigations into human potatao relationships, from worship and orginal cultivation by the Incas to saving famine struck Europians in one century to being used a cover story in killing populations via colonial stealing they’ve had a wild ride.
Geotagged potaoes -Collected spuds left after harvesting, made dried into starch and made into bioplastic spuds with marked with exact locations
Potato Power- “This is a sad hoax for industrial man no longer eats potatoes made from solar energy- now he eats potatoes partly made of oil” Howard Odum
My house looks out onto potato fields - the green expanse fools you into thinking your in “nature”- but these monoculture crops are a heavy industry site // Howard Odum author of “environment power and society” thought high yield crops like spuds only existed in a symbiotic relationship with fossil fuels -without the propping of intensive farming they wouldn’t survive - Odum was the pioneer of using electrical circuit diagrams showing the net energy used in agroecology- linking cybernetics , computing and ecosystems-
After harvesting, excess spuds are scattered around the edges of the field- Seeing them through Odum 👀 as units of oil and energy they are proceesed into bioplastic to make candle sticks.