"I was telling folk, if you want to put up a hedge but you’re not in a big hurry, hang up a line of bird feeders on sticks or something, and when the birds come there they’ll be shitting out seeds from the last berries that they ate…so they’ll be shitting out rose seeds from the rose hips they ate, and rowan seeds from the rowan berries they’ve eaten, and bramble seeds and that…and eventually you’ll get a line of shrubs, growing along the line where you put up the bird feeders, that’s it.."
"Do that later…I’m not sure how to get the thing up under, cos it’ll go under there but it’ll mean fuckin around with this somehow.."
"Six pulls with the choke, and two pulls without the choke…magic formula……oh it’s ahead of schedule!"
"Oh oh, what fun what fun!"
"Tea break"
"Hello…hello hello how you doing?"
"It must be getting iron from somewhere…so I started composting tin cans, you know beans tins and that…just kind of battering them flat putting them into a compost heap, in a kind of mitten that I wasn’t going to be dig wasn’t going to be like turning every few months like they do like gardening programmes do with compost heaps…compost heaps might be sitting there for five years or ten years or something…and when you do poke into it you find the remains of the tins you find if there’s been a ring-pull on it, you still find that or the kind of ring round top and the wee ring round bottom…you find that, and you find some wee shreds of metal but even as you pick it up its kind of falling apart, you know and it just disappears, it’s like wee flakes of rusty iron apart from the bits in…so I’ve just been putting any kind of junk that I can into the garden, but then thinking it’s bound to have some kind of mineral or something in it that some good for something."
"Well, I’m inside the house, smokes outside the house, that’s the way, that’s the way we think about these things isn’t it? "
"That’s…starting from the wrong end, if you’re worried about like there might be a wee bit of…cadmium or something in some kind of…old film or, whatever kind of thing you’d thrown away, that compared to the amount of good stuff that’s in it…that everything, the whole world’s polluted up to some sort of point you know, if what you’re breathing defeats the…"
"Cheerio…cheerio then, all the best.."
Stills from This Is My Land - 14min, 16mm, 2006.
Hut Two installed at the Regency Town House, Hove, Nov/Dec 2008.
