An English Pastorale
For the hotspot called "An English Pastorale", I wanted to literalise these objects' relation to the hedged lanes, cobbled streets, creaking wharfs, rustling copses and gentle valleys of their country of origin. I wanted to create a sly counterpoint to the more anodyne painterly depiction of the English landscape, something I had attempted to do before, both in sound and in video. But I also wanted to reach another hand out to feel, so to speak, the tactile qualities of these glazed objects, their thickness and thinness, their robustness of fragility.
Assembling a collection of ceramic objects from the kitchen cupboard and a selection of brushes and hammers from other points in the house, I set about trying to release their vibrations, recording the results on a Schaller guitar pick up mic. I then processed the recordings. accentuate the



