Laura Oldfield Ford is a Leeds-exile who wanders the back passages of darkest East London from her Hackney base and draws images and takes notes recording impressions, memories meanings in the real landscape we live in... I can vouch for it as a represntation of my landscape. BUT NOW she's ventured up to WALSALL! Blimey, you just don't get folk going to the Black Country. "Anyroadup she ay arf bad - in fact the wench con drawer and 'er knows 'er stuff. Psychogrography that's the Black Country if ever I heard it... "
Her Blog says
Savage Messiah: ---Black Country. Scorched circles on the dead gro...: Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, The mo...
And you can hear the wench chat on Saturday 25 February 2011, 2pm at
http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/there-is-a-place
Join Laura Oldfield Ford as she discusses her new work inspired by her walks or 'drifts' in and around Walsall and presents an alternative view of the town.
I drifted through nearby Stourbridge at Christmas. go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_sankey/sets/72157628999650715/ for photos. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_sankey/sets/72157628999650715/map/ for MAP and go to http://londonlandscapeobservatory.blogspot.com/2012/01/stourbridge-drift-derive-yule-2011.html?spref=bl for BLOG
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