Art Arcadia residency pt2- materiality. 

5 days In and some themes are coming through in my photography and my collecting. Finding interest in the local walnut trees, with their dark, inky husks and leathery fallen leaves. 

The local paths have given up a collection of shotgun shells in differing colours and states and the exotic quills of porcupines. 

This is in addition to my usual accumulation of metal, wire and twigs. 

Drawing with walnut husk and water. 

Shotgun cartridge, quill tip and oak hall- collection of finds from a walk. 

So the points of material interest are set, looking forward to developing new work from this.