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Photographs by Andy Marshall
What I love about walking is the way connections with features in the landscape evolve. My eyes lock on to a building and, as the paths and lanes twist and turn, I follow its relationship with the surrounding hills until it slips out of sight.
Over the coming season, I’ll be out and about in Woody - exploring more corners of the British Isles, continuing my art projects and following themed journeys through Britain.
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That contradiction is what interests me. We look fragile here - a tiny machine suspended against an immense wall of stone - and yet collectively we have the capacity to reshape whole landscapes.
There is something wonderfully vernacular about the mechanics of it all. The petrol pump occupies the pavement and the hose swings overhead – a pedestrian almost has to negotiate the apparatus to continue along the street.
Later in the day the sun cajoles us, blinds us, stops us in our tracks and then hides behind a copse. A narrow road leads to a crooked church - walls leaning, porch dotted with mass dials. The truck sidles up an embankment and screeches to a halt in a cloud of dust.
Here, the blacksmith has done something remarkable - but, somehow, the loss of part of the hinge has made it more beautiful still.
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