The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: Hackney

  • 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…

  • No one dives in me

    No one dives in me

      Seven things I’ve learned from 20 years as a community swimming pool. As told to Kit Caless.     When I’m cold I’m lonely. When I’m cold, the black brick sat on my bottom has no person to pick it up. They put a sign outside that says, “The pool is currently at 26…

  • Dead Bears and Pylons

    Dead Bears and Pylons

    “What the hell is that?” The man was at the bottom of Millfields Park in Hackney, can of lager in hand. He frowned across the Lea River at a cormorant bobbing in the water. “I dunno,” said his girlfriend as I passed by. “A black swan?” When many Londoners come to the eastern edge of…