Prospective reflections on 2025-26 Acting with nature — prehistory My new book Archaeologies of Nature: Activating the Archive, written with Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter and Turin, is now complete and in production. Open Access — it will be available as PDF in June 2026. We use an archaeology of artworks to probe human relationships…
TVRRIS
Cloud study with monument
In the wake, John Constable 1821. [Link] [Link] [Link] [Link] Storebaelt Bridge. Ambient rhetoric — commentary to come.
Tower and Garden
Lindisfarne. Tudor fort converted into country residence by architect Edwin Lutyens in 1901. His major project after this commission was to design the imperial government center of New Delhi. Garden designed by Gertrude Jeckyll. Replanting by the current charitable land owning agency, the National Trust, from original plans lost and found again in Berkeley University…
Tower in the North
Edlingham, Northumberland UK. Series – TVRRIS. (The tower appeared on the cover of my 1992 book Experiencing the Past – [Link] ) Archaeographic notes: There emerged in eighteenth-century Europe a distinctively modern aesthetic of ruin, part of an antiquarian and romantic sensibility. This series aims to question, reconfigure, reanimate the picturesque castle ruin in the…