Artist Story: The resurrection of Hazelford Mill, Oxfordshire

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Artist story # 5 [19 February 2010]

Well I have just been back home for about an hour or so and it has taken me that long to warm up having been out looking for treasure for four hours! I really am hopeless at all this field work..went out in my favourite vintage farmer style coat again and lost a precious gold button in the brook that I am carefully and probably pointlessly extracting broken pieces of ceramic from. Not all was lost though as I found the most wonderful piece with a fab cat on it! a fair exchange for my coats button. 

Every day I struggle to come to terms with what I have chosen as a career path as truly it is very stupid indeed..I have no money, no commercial gallery awaiting my new work (I do have a solo show at the end of this residency but Ill be perfectly honest with you It aint much cop and frankly with a name like ‘The Michael Heseltine Gallery’ I wonder if anyone will turn up anyway. I am going to refer to it as the ‘MH Gallery’ myself..and its anyones guess what it stands for. 

Ive got to laugh at myself really for finding old bits of china so fascinating, perhaps I am actually mad, who knows..certainly nobody should bother to care but me If I am.

Anyway, forgetting my self deprecating nonsense, onto the arty nonsense..this is what I wrote in my notebook sitting on a ruin mound in the village earler…

‘What I find so fascinating about this place is how it seems to have so easily become part of the earth, it reminds me of the fields i was taken to at La Somme as a teenager..and i suppose they do have something in common apart from visual similarities as their histories are both inextricably linked by the first world war (Hazelford being abandoned in 1914 due to the onset of war).

The softness of its decline into the earth I find very moving and a great comfort, it seems to have willingly buried itself under a soft, dewy green blanket. 

There are fruit trees and planted roses still to be seen and I await the beginning of spring to see what if any remnants of a traditional English cottage garden grows and flowers. 

As I write this I am sitting on a large mossy mound and I do feel as if I am treading on the dead but of course this is not a graveyard, however, removing small pieces of china from the brook feels to me like grave robbing and i have started to wonder about the ethical implications of this removal, although this place is not protected by heritage status it is a memorial site and these things do not belong to me. I will most probably put it all back next week. 

I remember going to Herculaneum and Pompeii when I was about 13 and seeing people kicking up pieces of Roman mosaic tiles and putting them in their pockets as souvenirs (I hope this has changed now) and wondering how they could do it. I could never even bring myself to take those little green bits of glass off graves..not even one, even though I wanted them so much because they sparkled..’

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