Cutting pattern

We have now got the cutting pattern ready for the cabinet. The wood elements are going to be cut with laser, which will leave a dark line around the edges […]

The magic of Albion

At the end of this project I am going to stock the cabinet with a few carefully chosen items including books I have met along the way, a video, a […]

Following the un-fore-seen

Following on from my previous post, Beneath the Hubbub, and with long-term thinking in mind after my walk with Peter, there is a letter by the musician and composer Brian […]

Beneath the hubbub

Today I met a man for whom short-term is a decade, medium a lifetime, and long the life of an oak. His job to plan what trees to plant in […]

Skin of mistrust

What I find particularly surprising about this type of 3D scanning is just how much it emphasises the artificial nature of the process. The basic scan (left) has an integrity […]

Laptop in the wild

Catching some good weather, Tomas Millar and I have been in the Forest scanning trees using a handheld scanner and laptop. (There is just something awkward about laptops in the […]

Branch on shelf

Continuing to work on the cabinet design and exploring new ways of linking library and Forest. Designing the cabinet to fit a tree was an initial idea (see my previous […]

From tree to shelf

My initial idea was to design a cabinet for a particular tree in the forest, and then to find a way of bringing this into the library, with the imprint […]

Memory water

Driving along and I see a couple by the side of the road collecting water from the gutter in clear plastic bottles. Well, that is what it looked like at […]

Chicken of the woods

Still looking at how fungi attach to trees and the shapes they create, and this one gave such a fantastic splash of colour I couldn’t resist including it here. “With […]

A Fortunate Man

“Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take […]

Tree typography

What surprised me about this was how far it was from the path, and on a tree that didn’t in any way stand out from the others around. A mark […]

Essence of library

Whenever I visit one of the libraries in the Forest I bring a bit of Berlin with me, well an image from Berlin, at least: that from Wim Wenders’ film […]

Life in the woods

Talking about growing up in the Forest a few decades ago and instead of turning to your Xbox (well, they weren’t around then but the equivalent) or the nearest pub/club, […]

A noble aim

What an illuminating morning, wandering through ancient plum orchards and orchid-strewn meadows on the fringes of the Forest! This is a place in change, where unusually biodiversity is on the […]

Notebook

My notebook is beginning to fill with ideas for the cabinet, inspired by the fungal growths I have been looking at around the Forest. At this stage it is about […]