field notes & traces reflects my experience during my residency with Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2016.
My experience of Somerset touched me deeply.
Early morning forays into the surrounding countryside allowed me to discover farmer’s fields, dairy farms, historic sites, such as King Alfred’s tower, shrouded in the mist.
It was early winter. The fields were fallow, the tourist sites empty. There was a lull and a feeling of quiet and transition in the air. Many of the trees leafless. The ground muddy.
Vestiges, remnants of the past embedded in the landscape, unchanged, Year after year, season after season.
Somerset is a region, 1610 square miles, which has been inhabited and farmed for centuries. And yet, time stands still. Echoes of the past in the present.
