Contributor: Phil Jenkins

to go into soil…

It’s the story, the biography of the field beneath my feet…English settlers imposed their acres on a land that before they arrived had flowed from sea to sea, joyfully free of measurement. (…) The acre’s residents; plants, trees and animals are familiar miracles but while their story unfolds above ground, there is another running concurrently, [...]

marking territory

No piece of land knows which flag it is flying or the nation that flag represents. Putting name flags on soil is a matter of convenience, so we can find one another, and state where we are from. Place names, sprayed on maps, street corners and garden gates, like graffiti, lets history know who has [...]