The folk horror tradition has always been less about the supernatural than about what happens when a community turns in on itself — when the landscape stops being backdrop and becomes agent. These collages work from that premise.

As the first lockdown came into force, I found myself without the comforts of studio or university, and with a minimum of time around homeschooling and, simply, managing. This series of works were made in light of those restrictions, and composed on the only ground available - a set of Hahnemühle German Etching papers obtained before March 2020. These dictated the uniform size of the series (each sheet of Hahnemühle is 108cm wide)

The square format resists landscape conventions; nothing can be panoramic at this scale. The imagery is distilled from vernacular sources — fête photographs, parish records, maps of contested commons — processed until the specificity drops away and what remains is atmosphere, residue, dread.