In Wales, in a caravan, not trailer trash but trashing the trailers. Making a market garden, trying to keep working, connecting utilities, windswept, airborne, flying at it.
At hand, on the land moments, in a sequence that loosely follows the time of day and the season of the year, examining the details of life on a no-dig permaculture market garden.
Self:Build:Self (or In By Christmas). An overview of four years spent building a straw bale house, from the foundations of car tyres to the home made clay paint. It was a long four years and every customer to the veg stall wanted to know "Will you be in by Christmas?" "Yes," we would reply, "...one Christmas."
A second project on self build, this time a PassivHaus built on the plot next door, reflects upon different methods and materials to achieve an air tight, low energy home.
Is building your own house a dream or a nightmare? That might depend on the day you ask the question on.
With a nod to Stephen Gill and my background as a painter I conducted several phases of environmental survey, brought together here.
Wiring discarded by the electrician making small sketches where they lay.
An archaeological survey of the site using pottery found during the groundworks with their patterns from the empire emphasised by special dark-light techniques.
The changing of the seasons and the weather as the build progresses.
