The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: cities

  • Parakeets and Purity

    Parakeets and Purity

    Because the land, the country, is such a focus of horticulture, there are important moments when its extraordinary fetishisation has connected it with movements of the extreme right: rhetorically, to simplify, the land becomes the fatherland.   George McKay, Radical Gardening         I live in north-west London. Sitting in the living room…

  • Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension is a project investigating life, pollution and biodiversity on the River Lea using photography and sound. Focusing on the blurrings of the natural and unnatural, clean and unclean, built and self-willed in a Lea Valley landscape that is constantly being rewritten and remade, the photographs here were taken on 120 film, and the…

  • The Home Hairdresser, Wakefield

    The Home Hairdresser, Wakefield

    Holding her hair over the sink, the water runs red; it trickles down her temple. It gets on lunch’s dirty plates. The towels are black, the floor beige. Don’t touch your head, you’ll get pink fingers! Put these gloves on, and just comb it out whilst I finish off Emma’s fringe. It splashes. Hair fragments…