I had a session yesterday, with Marged Pendrell, my art tutor/mentor.  It was, as always, incredibly helpful to stop and talk about where I’d got to. She could see all the work I was doing with research, coordinating and facilitating the ‘Digging Down’ project, but asked what was going on with my relationship with the objects and the ground they come from? Was, for example, I going to choose 3 things from the hoard I’ve laid out in the barn?

I wondered whether my selection should be based on the three that are most evocative for me? Or three most reminiscent? Or three most me? Which make me feel most connected? Which do I like best aesthetically? Which 3 would I keep if I had to get rid of all the others?

In the end, I think my choices were in response to a mix of all of those questions...